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Turkish Coast Guard teams have intercepted a rubber boat carrying 37 illegal migrants from Afghanistan in motion off the coast of Ayvacık district in the northwestern province of Çanakkale.

Turkey has captured more than 500 migrants for illegal border crossings in multiple provinces around the country over the past three days.

In the northwestern province of Çanakkale, 285 migrants of Syrian and Afghan origin, who were attempting to cross to the Greek island of Lesbos, were captured in Çanakkale's Ayvac?k district on Oct. 14, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The ancient Greek city of Paleo Gargara near the northern Aegean coast will be crossed with a tunnel after a highway project was stalled by a first-degree archaeological site, where no construction is permitted by law, in its path.