Turkey's Coast Guard

A Russian naval intelligence ship sank off Turkey's Black Sea coast on April 27 after colliding with a vessel carrying livestock, Turkey's Coast Guard said, noting that all 78 personnel on board were evacuated.

The ship, identified as the Liman, collided with the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H., the authority said on its website.

Turkey's Coast Guard has reported an eleven-fold year-on-year increase in the number of undocumented migrants discovered in the country's Aegean region.

Almost 8,500 refugees were found in Turkish Coast Guard operations in February 2016, 11 times more than the same month in 2015, officials told the state-run Anadolu Agency on March 1.

Turkey's Coast Guard rescued 91,611 would-be migrants who left their countries in a bid to reach northern and Western Europe in 2015, while 279 of them lost their lives in drowning incidents in the Aegean Sea, according to officials.

Four migrants have been killed while nine remain missing after their boat capsized off Turkey's Aegean coast.

A boat smuggling Iraqi migrants from Turkey's Aegean Ayd?n province to Greece capsized near Bulamaç Island, early on Dec. 10. 

The dead bodies of five migrants, including two babies, have washed ashore in the northwestern Turkish province of Çanakkale amid ongoing failed attempts by migrants to cross into Greece.