{"id":400599,"date":"2020-09-07T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400599"},"modified":"2020-09-07T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:39:18","slug":"165-asylum-seekers-held-in-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/165-asylum-seekers-held-in-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"165 asylum seekers held in Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antalya<strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>-Turkish security forces Monday held 165 asylum seekers trying to cross to Europe off the Mediterranean coast of Antalya, according to a security source.<\/p>\n<p>People in Kumluca district reported that asylum seekers were on a tour boat, named Summer Love A, according to a security source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Coast guard and gendarmerie teams were referred to the area and they detained Afghan and Somalian nationals on the boat, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>The captain and the trafficker could not be found during the search of the boat.<\/p>\n<p>The asylum seekers will be transferred to the provincial migration office after procedures at the Gendarmerie Station Command in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has been a key transit point for asylum seekers aiming to cross to Europe to start new lives, especially those fleeing war and persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Source; <strong>AA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antalya(SONNA)-Turkish security forces Monday held 165 asylum seekers trying to cross to Europe off the Mediterranean coast of Antalya, according to a security source. People in Kumluca district reported that asylum seekers were on a tour boat, named Summer Love A, according to a security source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400601,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400599\/revisions\/400601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}