ANKARA - Turkish security forces arrested 444 illegal migrants in operations carried out throughout Turkey on Monday.
The migrants of Palestinian, Somalian, Afghan, Iraqi, Iranian, Burmese and Algerian descent were detained for violating Turkish borders and passport law.
Illegal migrants will be deported once legal proceedings are completed.
Gendarmerie found five bodies that washed up ashore in Enez town of the north-western province of Edirne. Three Iraqi illegal migrants earlier detained said the bodies belong to their friends who drowned after a boat carrying them sank off.
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