As of: January 22, 2024, 9:50 a.m
By: Moritz Bletzinger
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Bodies washed up on beaches in Turkey: Numerous body discoveries are worrying people in the holiday region of Antalya.
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The sea washes dead bodies onto the beach.
Again and again.
Bodies are being found more and more in the holiday region of Antalya.
The authorities have serious suspicions.
Aksu – These are shocking images from the Turkish Riviera.
Within five days, six bodies were washed up on various holiday beaches in the Antalya region.
Some are said to be missing limbs.
Hotel workers find body on holiday beach in Turkey - the sixth in five days
The latest discovery was made by employees of a five-star hotel in the city of Aksu on Sunday (January 21).
The dead man was a young man.
On Saturday, the sea washed up two dead bodies.
One in Manavgat and one in Serik.
And the week before, a dead child and an adult body were found on the beaches of Alanya, writes
Daily Sabah
.
All the bodies turned up in a 73-kilometer stretch of coast,
Hürriyet
reports .
Some of the bodies were said to have been so badly damaged that they could no longer be identified.
In some cases it looks as if body parts have been cut off.
Where do the many deaths in the holiday region of Antalya come from?
Concern is growing in the region.
Where do all the dead come from?
The woman who washed up in Serik could be an 18-year-old who has been missing for around two weeks.
Her family traveled from Istanbul so that a DNA test could take place.
If there really is a tragedy behind it, similar to the case of two dead men in Mallorca, that does not explain the large number of bodies found.
Especially in such a short time.
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The coast guard has suspicions about this.
A refugee ship recently sank off the coast; the dead may have been refugees from Syria.
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Human rights organizations describe the Mediterranean route as the deadliest refugee route in existence.
It leads directly past the coast in southern Turkey.
In 2022 alone, at least 2,400 people died in the Mediterranean while fleeing to Europe, writes the UN refugee agency.
The number of unreported cases seems significantly higher.