Human traffickers arrested in Turkey
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Turkish gendarmes arrested hundreds of Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, Afghans and three human traffickers, near the town of Ayvacik in Canakkale province, coastguard officials told Reuters.
In the largest operation of its kind in recent months, the migrants were sent to a repatriation centre where some could face deportation, the officials said.
A record 500,000 people fleeing a four-year civil war in Syria have travelled through Turkey then risked their lives to reach Greece in rickety boats this year, their first stop in Europe before traveling north.
Nearly 600 people have died on the so-called eastern-Mediterranean route, according to the International Organization for Migration. Turkey is home to more than 2 million refugees as well as thousands of refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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