Turkish deputy prime minister has warned that those behind human trafficking of asylum seekers risked facing terrorism charges in Turkey.
Addressing a gathering of foreign journalists in the Turkish capital Ankara Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said the Council of Ministers has been working on a law that will consider organizing (trafficking of) illegal migrants (into Europe from Turkey) as a terror crime.
"These actions are going to be considered under [Turkey's] penal code," Kurtulmuş said.
Kurtulmuş added that approximately 4,800 such traffickers were caught during 2015 and half of them were arrested.
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