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Alexiou, citing survivor accounts, said passengers in the hold of the fishing boat included women and children but that the number of missing, believed to be in the hundreds, still remained unclear.
Alexiou said repeated offers of assistance were rejected in communications with the vessel as well as calls made over a loudspeaker.
Coast guard spokesperson Nikos Alexiou has denied reports of survivors saying a patrol boat had tried to tow the fishing boat causing it to capsize.
Coast Guard spokesperson Nikos Alexiou said the coast guard and private vessels followed the vessel in international waters before it sank.
Mrs Alexiou said she has received around 80 letters of support in recent weeks.
Nikos Alexiou, a spokesman for the coast guard told CNN.
Christina Alexiou was born in Athens to a forward-thinking father and an emotional mother who grew up in Constantinople.
Kazantzakis married Galatea Alexiou in 1911; they divorced in 1926.