June 11, 2018•Update: June 11, 2018
By Hakan Mehmet Sahin and Ali Balli
EDIRNE/MUGLA, Turkey
A total of 481 undocumented migrants were held across Turkey, security sources said on Monday.
Border guards held 402 migrants in the northwestern Edirne province’s Meric and Ipsala districts and the villages of Bosnakoy, Yenikadin, Kemalkoy Orhaniye, according to a security source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
Among the migrants were Syrian, Pakistani, Libyan, Algerian, Palestinian, Iraqi, Moroccan, Iranian, and Bangladeshi nationals.
In the southwestern coastal province of Mugla, the coast guard held 21 undocumented migrants in a boat off the coast of Bagla Bay.
Among the migrants were Syrian and Iraqi nationals, including women and children.
Separately, 58 migrants -- most of them Syrian nationals -- were held in a rubber boat off Dikili in the Aegean Izmir province.
The migrants were sent to provincial migration authorities.
Turkey has been route for refugees trying to cross into Europe, especially since the beginning of the civil war in Syria.
*Safak Yel contributed to this report from Izmir.
