Early today, an Associated Press video and photo team saw the Turkish coast guard unload five body bags from a patrol boat as rescued migrants, one man with his head in his hands, sat on the wharf.
A wailing young boy and a man were put into ambulances as survivors looked on.
Details of the nationalities and identities of the dead were not immediately available.
Bodrum coast guard declined comment. State-run Anadolu news agency also reported that five migrants drowned.