Over 85 undocumented migrants held in Turkey

By Burak Akay, Mehmet Yavas, and Serhat Zafer

CANAKKALE / SIVAS, Turkey (AA) - Security forces on Wednesday held a total of 88 undocumented migrants across Turkey, security sources said.

In the northwestern Canakkale province, the gendarme forces rounded up 74 Afghans and Syrians in the Ayvacik district, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

The migrants were planning to cross into the Greek island of Lesbos, the sources said.

Separately in the central Anatolian Sivas province, police stopped a passenger bus for a routine control on the Sivas-Erzincan highway, and rounded up 14 undocumented Afghan migrants.

All migrants were referred to provincial migration authorities.

Turkey has been the main route for migrants trying to cross into Europe, especially since the beginning of the civil war in Syria.