Coastguard officers also found 13 people, all of them Syrian
citizens, safe on the seashore. They later recovered the body of
the man, an official said, without providing further details.
The coastguard was alerted early in the morning about the
incident off Rhodes, opposite the Turkish coast.
Searches for more survivors continued.
Greece was the main gateway for hundreds of thousands of asylum
seekers, many fleeing fighting in the Middle East, who streamed
out of neighbouring Turkey in 2015 and 2016 until a deal with
the European Union stemmed the flow.
(Reporting by Renee Maltezou; Editing by Alison Williams)
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