Türkiye detains 192 irregular migrants, 40 alleged human traffickers

STORY: Türkiye detains 192 irregular migrants, 40 alleged human traffickers SHOOTING TIME: May 20, 2024/ File DATELINE: May 21, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:54 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Turkish authorities detaining 192 irregular migrants and 40 alleged human traffickers (courtesy of Turkish Interior Ministry) STORYLINE: Turkish authorities have detained 192 irregular migrants and 40 alleged human traffickers in operations across 14 provinces, a cabinet minister said on Monday. "We will never give an opportunity to human traffickers who try to turn our country into a destination and transit route for irregular migration," Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media platform X. "Our determined operations in every region of our country will continue uninterruptedly." Yerlikaya said that the operations resulted in the seizure of 14 vehicles and a large amount of foreign currency. The arrested irregular migrants have been transferred to the Provincial Directorate of Immigrat

130 Nigerian migrants voluntarily repatriated from Libya: official

STORY: 130 Nigerian migrants voluntarily repatriated from Libya: official DATELINE: March 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:23 LOCATION: Tripoli CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): HUSSAIN AL-AMIN, Head of the Deportation Section of the Illegal Migration Control Department of Misurata International Airport STORYLINE: About 130 illegal Nigerian immigrants, including women and children, were voluntarily repatriated from Libya on Tuesday, a local official said. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): HUSSAIN AL-AMIN, Head of the Deportation Section of the Illegal Migration Control Department of Misurata International Airport "The Deportation Section of the Illegal Migration Control Department has organized a flight to deport 130 illegal Nigerian migrants voluntarily to their country, including women and children." The repatriation was carried out as part of the Voluntary Humanitarian Return program of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Hussain al-Amin, head of the Deportation Section of the Illegal Immigrat