Turkey building a wall on border with Iran
Turkish Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu said Turkey had decided to build a 144-km long wall on its eastern border with Iran, news site Duvar reported.
Soylu told a meeting on security and drugs that Turkey had an illegal immigration problem due to the lack of effective state authorities in some of its neighbours, referring to Syria and Iraq.
But Soylu said there had also been a recent influx of migrants from Iran and that authorities this year had captured 27,000 people entering Turkey illegally, and 6,500 had been sent back to their home countries in 10 days.