Turkey busts Europe's biggest human trafficking network that mainly helped Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian nationals cross into European countries
As part of the operations, police detained 569 irregular immigrants and seized six vehicles and six boats.
Twenty people, including ringleader Akbar Omar Tawfeeq, were detained in operations in four Turkish provinces after a year-long investigation into the organisation, Istanbul police said. The smuggling group, whose leaders are mainly from northern Iraq, earned an average of 2 million euros annually. Turkey was one of the main launch points for the dangerous sea leg of their journey, on which thousands died.
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