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Six more migrant children drown in Aegean off Turkey

Six more migrant children drowned in two separate boat capsizing incidents in the Aegean Sea on Dec. 16. 

Two Iraqi children, aged six and two, were found dead off the Turkish resort town of Çe?me after trying to reach EU member Greece.

The bodies of the two children were found floating in the sea by local fishermen who then handed them over to the ?zmir coastguard.

Over 600 migrants seized by police in western Turkey

More than 600 migrants have been seized by security forces in western Turkey over the past two days, as well as at least 12 human traffickers. 

Some 149 migrants were found at a construction site in the resort town of Bodrum on Dec. 9 after police received intelligence that a group of migrants were set to cross over to Greece in a boat, Do?an News Agency reported.

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