Immigration to Greece

A total of 11 Syrian migrants, including children, have drowned off Turkey's west coast after a fiber boat carrying at least 18 migrants capsized off the Aegean province of Ayd?n, while new data has shown an increase in the number of migrants crossing to Greek islands in an effort to reach European countries.

The number of migrants and refugees who have arrived in Europe in 2015 surpassed one million.

Last week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had estimated that their number will certainly surpass one million by the end of the year and this was confirmed on Monday.

Eight migrants - five of them children - drowned in two separate boat accidents off Turkey's Aegean coast early Dec. 18.

Four Iraqi migrants, including two children, drowned after a Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish resort town of Bodrum early Dec. 18.

Four Iraqi migrants, including two children, drowned after a Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish resort town of Bodrum early on Dec. 18.

The boat carrying a total of eight Iraqi migrants capsized off the Aegean province of Mu?la, leaving four dead, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

Six more migrant children drowned in two separate boat capsizing incidents in the Aegean Sea on Dec. 16. 

Two Iraqi children, aged six and two, were found dead off the Turkish resort town of Çe?me after trying to reach EU member Greece.

The bodies of the two children were found floating in the sea by local fishermen who then handed them over to the ?zmir coastguard.

A migrant mother from has carried her dead daughter, wrapped in a blanket, for five kilometers after the Greece-bound inflatable boat carrying both of them capsized off western Turkey.

Ten-year-old Nergis Maghsoudi drowned early Dec. 14 after a boat heading to the Greek island of Lesbos, with 50 Afghan migrants aboard, capsized in international waters. 

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. 

A total of 13 migrants, including seven children, were killed early on Dec. 9 after two separate boats capsized off Turkey's Aegean coast. The incidents come amid a new spate of deaths in the sea dividing Turkey and Greece, as the wave of migrants trying to reach Europe continues into the winter.

A total of 12 migrants were killed early on Dec. 9 in the capsizing of two separate boats off Turkey's Aegean coast, as the wave of migrants trying to reach Europe continues into the winter.

The Turkish Coast Guard has rescued 65 Afghan migrants in the Aegean, 13 of whom are children, after their dinghy capsized off the coast of Çeşme