By Cankut Tasdan
ANKARA (AA) – Police teams have held 13 irregular migrants in the Turkish capital, security sources said on Monday.
Acting upon a tip off, police in Ankara stopped in Golbasi district a bus coming from the southeastern province of Batman.
Upon checking their documents, five Afghan nationals and two human smugglers were arrested.
In a separate incident, eight Afghan nationals and two human smugglers were arrested from a bus coming from the southeastern province of Diyarbakir.
The irregular migrants will be deported and the human smugglers will undergo an investigation, the sources said.
*Writing by Ahmet Gencturk