A 31-year-old Turkish migrant smuggler who was arrested on May 2, 2024 by port officers in Symi apologizes to the Investigative Service today.

Around 11:55 p.m. on May 1, 2024, the port guards spotted an unruly inflatable boat drifting without navigation lights with a Turkish national on board, north of Symi, near the rock island of Plati.
A few hours later, the Coast Guard was informed by phone by a private citizen about the existence of immigrants in the Niborio area. The port guards found 14 immigrants who, when questioned, testified that they left from a beach east of Datsa city with the speedboat and recognized Turko as its skipper.
Apologizing after announcing that he has been sentenced in Turkey for killing a man with a shotgun for teasing his sister at the age of 20, the 31-year-old denied transporting the migrants claiming that a Syrian called him and wanted to entrust him with the transport for a fee of 3,000 euros . The transfer as he said was done by another person and he himself is a fisherman and all he did was to transfer the empty boat.
Mr. Dimitris Dimitriadis is represented as his defense counsel.