Aegean Sea

Turkey's Erdogan denounces Israel-Greece-Cyprus trilateral summit, affirms support for Gaza

Turkish President Erdogan denounces the Israel-Greece-Cyprus meeting and vows Turkey will not allow violations of its rights in the Mediterranean, while continuing to support Gaza.

|ByJAMES GENN
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pictured in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, December 12, 2025; illustrative.
Migrants from sub-saharan African countries on a dinghy react as they are towed by a rescue boat during their effort to cross part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece, February 29, 2020.

Five killed after migrant boat hits coast guard vessel off northwest Turkey

In a statement, the governor's office said a high-speed boat carrying 34 migrants and one migrant trafficker hit the coast guard vessel off Ayvalik district's Badavut coast.

|ByREUTERS
Kokkari, a fishing village on Samos island, Greece.

Deadly 1956 Aegean earthquake revisited: new study unpacks Greece’s largest 20th-century tsunami

Geophysical Research Letters analysis shows both fault rupture and submarine landslides contributed to the disaster.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Wreckage of WWII bomber Baltimore FW282 found in Aegean Sea after 80 years.

Wreckage of WWII bomber Baltimore FW282 found in Aegean Sea after 80 years

WWII bomber Baltimore FW282 found in Aegean Sea after 80 years.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Lost WWII submarine HMS Trooper found after 80 years in Aegean Sea

The HMS Trooper vanished in 1943 during a secret mission in Greek waters to land three agents of the Greek resistance on the island of Kalamos.

JANUARY 5, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Sea of Icaria.