{"id":8425,"date":"2024-08-13T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2024-08-13T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:37:06","slug":"turkiye-rescues-22-irregular-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/turkiye-rescues-22-irregular-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye rescues 22 irregular migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye rescued 22 irregular migrants after Greek authorities pushed them back into Turkish territorial waters, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coast guard units rescued the migrants, including one child, from a lifeboat off the coast of Fethiye in T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s southwestern province of Mugla on Sunday, the Turkish Coast Guard said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye has been a key transit point for asylum seekers aiming to cross into Europe to start new lives, especially those fleeing war and persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ankara and global rights groups have repeatedly condemned Greece\u2019s illegal practice, saying it violates humanitarian values and international law by endangering the lives of vulnerable migrants, including women and children.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye rescued 22 irregular migrants after Greek authorities pushed them back into Turkish territorial waters, authorities said Monday. Coast guard units rescued the migrants, including one child, from a lifeboat off the coast of Fethiye in T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s southwestern province of Mugla on Sunday, the Turkish Coast Guard said in a statement. T\u00fcrkiye has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}