Twenty-four died when their boat sank off the district of Edremit in the western province of Balikesir in an apparent bid to reach the Greek island of Lesbos.
Four people were rescued both by air and by sea in a search and rescue operation by the Turkish coastguard, Dogan news agency said.
The accident came shortly after 11 migrants died in another boat sinking further south, off the port city of Izmir, also apparently trying to reach Lesbos, the agency said. The coastguard rescued three people.
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