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Human traffickers are changing their illegal trafficking routes to Europe depending on the density of the controls on the Aegean coasts, where 96 percent of all illegal passages to Europe are being done. 

Human traffickers prefer the suitable bays and beaches of Turkey's Aegean coast when sending hundreds of migrants to Greek islands in inflatable boats.

Turkish police have seized over 1,200 unsafe life jackets destined for use by migrants trying to reach Greece by sea, in a raid on an underground workshop that used Syrian underage labor on Jan. 6.

The authorities seized 1,263 life jackets that failed to correspond to safety standards in the raid on the workshop in the center of ?zmir, Do?an News Agency said.

The responsibility for the deaths of innocent Syrians, including 36 migrants who washed up on Turkey's shores on Jan. 5, lies with the international community and particularly the U.N. Security Council, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said.

Turkey’s authorities found the bodies of 21 migrants, including three children, at two separate locations on the Aegean coast after their boat capsized in rough seas as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesvos.

The bodies of at least 34 migrants who were attempting to cross to Greece have washed up in the Aegean districts of Ayval?k and Dikili after two boats overturned in stormy weather, amid fears that the death toll could rise.

The bodies of at least 34 migrants who were attempting to cross to Greece have washed up in the Aegean districts of Ayval?k and Dikili after two boats overturned in stormy weather, amid fears that the death toll could rise.

The bodies of at least 20 refugees who were attempting to cross to Greece have washed up in the Aegean districts of Ayval?k and Dikili after two boats overturned in stormy weather, amid fears that the death toll could rise.

The bodies of at least 10 refugees who were attempting to cross to Greece have washed up in the Aegean district of Ayval?k after their boat overturned in stormy weather amid fears that the death toll could rise.

A drowned two-year-old boy became the first known migrant casualty of the year on Jan. 1 after the crowded dinghy he was travelling in slammed into rocks off Greece's Agathonisi island, the coastguard said.

The other 39 passengers, including a woman who had fallen overboard, were rescued after local fishermen raised the alarm.

A migrant mother from has carried her dead daughter, wrapped in a blanket, for five kilometers after the Greece-bound inflatable boat carrying both of them capsized off western Turkey.

Ten-year-old Nergis Maghsoudi drowned early Dec. 14 after a boat heading to the Greek island of Lesbos, with 50 Afghan migrants aboard, capsized in international waters.