Interior Ministry

More than 2,300 irregular migrants were caught between Jan. 20 and Jan. 26, the Directorate of Migration Management of the Interior Ministry has announced.

"Our fight against irregular migration continues. Between Jan. 20 and 26, a total of 2,322 were apprehended," the directorate stated in a social media post.

Nearly 3,000 irregular migrants were also deported, it noted.

A British minister said Albanian children are prominent among migrant youngsters who have gone missing from hostels and hotels run by the Home Office - the UK equivalent to the Interior Ministry.

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick told MPs that of 4,600 child asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK since 2021, 440 had gone missing and only about half had returned.

In line with the effort to prevent drug abuse and peer bullying in schools, the Education Ministry will prioritize the appointment of guidance teachers in 2023.

Romania cracks down on online violations

Romania has taken a strong stance against online violations with a series of arrests and convictions in recent months. Law enforcement agencies have been cracking down on individuals and organizations engaging in illegal activities, resulting in arrests and convictions.

In Montenegro, heavy rain in the towns of Pljevlja, Mojkovac and Rozaje blocked roads due to rising water levels and landslides. The Interior Ministry said its Protection and Rescue Office was in constant communication with local authorities, adding that the army is on standby if the situation worsens.

The Federation of Local Government Workers' Unions (POE-OTA) has called a 24-hour strike on Tuesday following the work-related death earlier this month of a sanitation worker at the Municipality of Xylokastro in the northern Peloponnese.

A lawsuit has been filed against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu for seven years in prison on the grounds of "bid rigging" of his time as the mayor of Beylikdüzü district in 2015.

The brutal case of the naked, barefoot and beaten Ukrainian woman thrown away by a former employee of the Interior Ministry did not find a place in the information bulletins of the Ministry of the Interior today.

Though many citizens paid a fee for the passport in the last months of 2022 and got an appointment in 2023 due to the density, civil registry offices have demanded to reflect the raised fee differences.

The Presidential decree to adjust the distribution of parliamentary seats following the results of the 2021 census has reached the Council of State. The decree was authored by the Electoral Authority of the Interior Ministry.