Police teams in İstanbul’s Avcılar district located 40 migrants who entered Turkey illegally, based largely on reports by anonymous informants.
After a series of raids on targeted addresses, the migrants were taken into custody and sent to a repatriation center.
Turkish officials have been signaling an intensified crackdown on irregular migration, pledging to deport illegal migrants and to move Syrians who are not unregistered in İstanbul to other cities.