Turkey Arrests Over 1,000 Migrants, Including Moroccans, in Border Crackdown
It seems that Moroccans, in search of the Eldorado, have once again defied the Mediterranean. A group of 1,023 illegal migrants was arrested on Monday, July 29, 2019, by the Turkish border forces in the province of Edirne, in northwestern Turkey.
According to the Menafn website, several operations were carried out by the gendarmerie and border police elements in the provinces of Ipsala, Meric, Kesan and Uzenkopru over the past two days.
More than 1,000 illegal migrants were thus apprehended, more precisely Moroccans, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, the site reports. More than a hundred Moroccans had reached the Turkish shore.
The immigrants were all transferred to the Provincial Directorate of Immigration in the city of Iderne, where they were placed in detention centers, pending repatriation to their country of origin.
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