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10/10/2025 – 30/10/2025

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  • According to a report by Ekathimerini on 27 October 2025, four people died in a shipwreck off the coast of Lesvos. Seven people, all from Sudan, were rescued. 
  • As reported by InfoMigrants on 24 October 2025, a cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Lines has rescued 63 people off the Greek coast in the night of 22 October. The migrants were on a small sailing boat south-west of the western island of Zakynthos and taken to the port of Kalamata.  
  • On 17 October 2025, Arab News reported that two women’s bodies have been found off the coast of the island of Chios, Greece. The news come after a boat carrying 29 migrants had sunk. According to the authorities, ten of the surviving passengers, including three in serious condition, were transferred to the hospital in Chios.  
  • Two people, one of them a child, have drowned after a migrant boat capsized while reportedly being chased by the Greek coast guard near the island of Rhodes, InfoMigrants reported on 15 October 2025. According to AP news, the incident occurred in the early hours of 14 October during a routine coast guard patrol in the eastern Aegean sea near Turkey. A speedboat carrying migrants was signaled to stop but did not comply, leading to the chase. In an attempt to evade the control, the vessel overturned. All passengers were thrown into the sea, and two patrol boats rescued 12 men and four women. 
  • According to an article published by Greek City Times on 15 October 2025, Greece will shift its asylum policy toward Syrian nationals. At the recent  EU Council of Interior and Migration Ministers meeting in Luxembourg, Greece’s Minister for Migration and Asylum, Thanos Plevris, stated that his country was already reassessing the international protection status of Syrians, claiming that “The populations now facing danger in Syria are not Muslims, but Christians”, and that those already previously granted protection may no longer face the same level of risk.  
  • Four migrants have died off the coast of Lesvos after their boat got shipwrecked, InfoMigrants reported on 8 October 2025. According to the report, the boat carried 38 people and had run aground close to the coastline of the island, leading it to sink in high waves. 34 people were found alive on the coast and were taken to a reception center on Lesbos.