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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 9 May 2023)
"Rust Bucket" Tourism AŞ...not quite Carnival Cruises.
The Istanbul Gendarmerie Command went after a human trafficking
organization that was taking hundreds of illegal migrants to Romania
via the Black Sea. For ten months the comings and goings of all boats
at the fishing port of Karaburun on the Black Sea coast of Istanbul's
Arnavuköy district were monitored, with the involvement of MIT
(Turkish National Intelligence Organization/TNIO).
Two restaurants in Aksaray, Istanbul, were used as the meeting place for
the illegals and their shepherds, who were themselves illegal aliens.
The illegals paid between $5,000-$7,000 for passage. From the restaurants
the illegals were taken to five houses in Arnavutköy, Istanbul, to await the
time for boarding the "rust bucket"-type run-down ships, which left from
Karaburun on moonless nights en route to Romania.
The Gendarmerie, together with the Coast Guard and MIT, conducted
simultaneous raids on the five houses in Arnavutköy, the two restaurants
in Aksaray and 10 vehicles that were transporting illegals. 15 individuals
were arrested and 6 fishing boats, 9 inflatable boats, 10 automobiles, 35
passports and 300,000 TL in cash were seized. 11 of the 15 individuals
were jailed and the other 4 were released on judicial supervision.
Some illegals were rescued at the last moment from a sinking "rust
bucket" in the waters off Karaburun, while others were captured in a
wooded area near the boarding point. 538 illegal migrants were turned
over to immigration officials for expulsion from Turkey.
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