UK signs deal with Turkey to disrupt people-smuggling gangs

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It includes increased collaboration and intelligence-sharing but no deal to return failed asylum seekers.

The UK and Turkey have agreed a new deal to disrupt people-smuggling gangs and tackle illegal migration.

It said more officers would also be deployed to Turkey to enable collaboration between National Crime Agency and Home Office staff based in the country and their Turkish counterparts. In the first seven months of this year 1,486 Turkish nationals crossed the Channel to the UK by small boat, becoming the second most common nationality to do so behind Afghans, according to Home Office figures.

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