Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya reported that 63 migrant smugglers were arrested in Operation Kalkan 23, carried out by the gendarmerie against migrant smuggling in four provinces.
In a statement on his social media accounts, Yerlikaya said operations against migrant smuggling organizers and illegal immigrants were carried out by the gendarmerie in four provinces.
Erica said 63 organizers of migrant smuggling have been arrested, adding, “38 of the organizers have been arrested and judicial interdiction decisions have been issued against 14 of them. I want our dear citizens to know that we will never give an opportunity to the organizers of smuggling. They are trying to make our country a target and transit route for illegal migration through smuggling. “Our operations, carried out with determination in all regions, will continue uninterrupted,” he said.
Yerikaya shared details of Operation Kalkan-23, which was carried out in Muğla, Van, Çanakkale and Şırnak as a result of work carried out by regional gendarmerie units under the coordination of the Combating Migrant Smuggling and Human Trafficking Department of the General Headquarters of the Gendarmerie.
Yerlikaya said that as a result of the operations carried out by the Muğla Provincial Gendarmerie, 29 migrant smuggling organizers were arrested, 18 of them were arrested, decisions of judicial control were made against five of them, three of them were subject to control decisions, and 125 illegal migrants were caught in Van.
Yerlikaya said that 10 of the 11 migrant smuggling organizers arrested as a result of the operations carried out by the Çanakkale Provincial Gendarmerie have been arrested, and that one of the nine migrant smuggling organizers arrested as a result of the operations carried out by the Çanakkale Provincial Gendarmerie has been arrested. The Provincial Gendarmerie Command was arrested and judicial control orders were issued against six of them.
Minister Yerikaya announced that the intercepted illegal immigrants had been handed over to the State Directorate General of Immigration Control and that deportation procedures had begun.
