Turkey Detains 21 Migrants Trying to Enter Bulgaria

Turkish authorities say they arrested 21 people who were seeking to cross illegally into Bulgaria on Saturday.

Another 26 were captured before entereing Greece from Turkey's northwest, Hürriyet Daily News reports.

A total of 978 were detained on Saturday while trying to cross into or out of Turkey at borders with Greece, Bulgaria, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Of them, 697 had attempted to enter the country from Syria.