Greek, Turkish Boats Collide

Date: 17 January 2018 - 21:22

News ID: ۴۹۰۲۰

ATHENS (AFP) -- A Greek gunboat Wednesday collided with a Turkish patrol boat near a disputed islet group in the Aegean, the Greek navy said.
"It was probably owing to an error on the part of the Turkish vessel," a Greek navy source told AFP. "The vessels' sides came together. There was no damage and nobody was hurt. The incident is over," the officer added. The incident occurred near the uninhabited Imia islets, just off the Turkish coast and a historic flarepoint in a long-running demarcation dispute.