La Turchia arresta 1.300 richiedenti asilo …

La Turchia ha intensificato un giro di vite sulle persone immigrate, arrestando 1.300 richiedenti asilo in una sola operazione poche ore dopo che il paese ha promesso di frenare il flusso di rifugiati in Grecia in cambio di aiuti finanziari da parte dell’Unione europea.

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Turkey arrests 1,300 asylum seekers after £2bn EU border control deal

Three people smugglers held along with hundreds of Syrians, Afghans, Iranians and Iraqis after country vows to curb flow of refugees in return for aid

A woman wearing a thermal blanket holds her child on a beach in Lesbos. Hundreds of refugees were arrested in Turkey before making it to the Greek island on Monday.

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Monday 30 November 2015 18.28 GMT Last modified on Monday 30 November 2015 22.31 GMT

Turkey has stepped up a crackdown on people smuggling, arresting 1,300 asylum seekers in a single operation just hours after the country promised to curb the flow of refugees to Greece in exchange for financial aid from the EU.

Hundreds of Syrians, Afghans, Iranians and Iraqis and three people smugglers were seized on Monday in the countryside near Ayvacık, a Turkish town north of the Greek island of Lesbos, Reuters and the Associated Press reported. According to the UN, about 425,000 people have arrived in Lesbos in smuggling boats this year, while a further 300,000 have reached other Greek islands from Turkey – leading the EU to criticise its eastern neighbour for not doing enough to police its own border.

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