ISTANBUL - Turkish police arrested 100 illegal migrants in Istanbul, sources said on Thursday.
Sources said that police, acting on a tip-off, raided on a building in Istanbul`s Kagithane neighborhood, and detained about 100 illegal migrants who entered Turkey clandestinely.
Among the captured, there were Pakistanis, Afghans and Bangladeshis, the sources noted.
The sources said that efforts were under way to capture people who aided the illegal migrants, adding that the illegal migrants would be deported once the legal proceedings were completed.
(BRC) 09.09.2004