An English speaking foreigner called Foreign Communication Center on 18.09.2015 at 15.09 and reported that they set off from Bodrum and there were 8 people on the boat, she called 158 but she couldn’t be able to express herself since she didn’t know Turkish, their boat was taking on water and they needed urgent help.

A foreigner representative from the foreign communication center, which is available 7 days 24 hours in 4 languages including English, conveyed the situation to the Coast Guard’s ALO-158 phone line. Upon the conveyance, Coast Guard Command teams reached the location information of the migrants and arrived in Bodrum Gümüşlük area and rescued 8 migrants; one Syrian, 7 Myanmar nationals, whose boat was about to sink.