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97 irregular migrants of different nationalities held across Turkey
Migrants with a dog walk to reach Pazarakule border gate, Edirne, Turkey, at the Turkish-Greek border on Sunday, March 1, 2020.
AP / Emre Tazegul
2021-08-11, Anadolu Agency
A total of 97 foreign nationals who illegally entered Turkey were held in the northwestern Istanbul and Tekirdag provinces, as well as in the Aegean Izmir province,...
Greek police fire tear gas at migrants as border convoy grows
A migrant woman pushing with riot police outside a refugee camp in the village of Diavata, west of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Friday, April 5, 2019. Clashes broke out Thursday between migrants and Greek police outside a camp in northern Greece.
AP / Giannis Papanikos
2019-04-06, Dawn
ATHENS: Greek police fired tear gas on Friday to disperse migrants who had gathered in a field near the country’s border with NorthernMacedonia in the hope of making...
Turkey train disaster leaves 24 dead, hundreds hurt
An overturned train car is seen near a village at Tekirdag province, Turkey Sunday, July 8, 2018.
AP / DHA-Depo Photos
2018-07-09, Deccan Herald
Twenty-four people were killed and hundreds injured when a train packed with weekend passengers derailed in northwest Turkey due to ground erosion after heavy rains,...
9 Turkish rail officials jailed for deadly train crash2024-04-25
Xinhua: ANKARA, April 25 (Xinhua) -- A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced nine officials to jail over a train crash in 2018 that killed 25 people, local media reported. The verdict in the case against 13 defendants, who were on trial for "causing death and injury by...
Turkey Rail Crash Trial2024-04-25
Beaumont Enterprise: FILE - An overturned train car is seen near a village at Tekirdag province,...