Published : 19-12-2022
A total of 144 illegal migrants, including a number of Palestinian refugees, were detained by gendarmes in Turkey’s Aegean province of Muğla on Friday evening.
The migrants from Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine and Bangladesh, among them 43 children and 41 women, were found in three vehicles in the district of Ula near Marmaris, a coastal town frequently used by those who want to pass from Turkey to Greece by boat to seek refugee status in Europe.
The gendarmes also arrested three people on suspicion of smuggling migrants.
Lawyer Türkan Aslan Ağaç from the Law and Human Rights Commission of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) told the news site Gazete Duvar that the immigrants are being held at Ula Repatriation Centre in Muğla province.
Turkey’s interior minister announced in November that more than 234,000 illegal migrants have been prevented from entering the country since the beginning of the year. Some 170 people have died and 708 have been wounded in the last three years as a result of Greek officials pushing back migrants who manage to cross the border, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu told reporters on 20 October.
On the same day, six people died and five others were injured when a bus carrying 31 migrants fell into an irrigation channel in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, on the border with Syria.
A total of 144 illegal migrants, including a number of Palestinian refugees, were detained by gendarmes in Turkey’s Aegean province of Muğla on Friday evening.
The migrants from Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine and Bangladesh, among them 43 children and 41 women, were found in three vehicles in the district of Ula near Marmaris, a coastal town frequently used by those who want to pass from Turkey to Greece by boat to seek refugee status in Europe.
The gendarmes also arrested three people on suspicion of smuggling migrants.
Lawyer Türkan Aslan Ağaç from the Law and Human Rights Commission of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) told the news site Gazete Duvar that the immigrants are being held at Ula Repatriation Centre in Muğla province.
Turkey’s interior minister announced in November that more than 234,000 illegal migrants have been prevented from entering the country since the beginning of the year. Some 170 people have died and 708 have been wounded in the last three years as a result of Greek officials pushing back migrants who manage to cross the border, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu told reporters on 20 October.
On the same day, six people died and five others were injured when a bus carrying 31 migrants fell into an irrigation channel in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, on the border with Syria.
