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Three women, baby die after migrant boat sinks in Turkey

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Three women and a child on Tuesday drowned when a boat carrying migrants from Afghanistan and Iran sank off the Turkish coast, the Turkish coast guard said.

It was gathered that Turkish authorities rescued 11 more people after the boat went down 1.7 nautical miles off the coast near Canakkale early Tuesday morning,

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Turkey, which has taken in nearly four million refugees from the Syrian war, is also known as a route for illegal migrants trying to get to Europe.

Around a million people, who are majorly escaping the conflict in Syria, crossed to European Union member Greece from Turkey in 2015 after the onset of the bloc’s worst migration crisis since World War II.

Ankara, Turkey’s cosmopolitan capital, struck a deal with the EU in 2016 to stop the flow of migrants into Europe, and agreed to take back those landing on Greek islands in exchange for incentives and financial support.

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