Recent investigations launched by the Izmir Police Department into the human smuggling gangs have reportedly revealed that Syrians have replaced Turks in dominating the trafficking activities in the Aegean Sea. Turks were found to be below the Syrians in the smuggling gangs’s hierarchy, notesHurriyet. Syrians, who control the money flow into the trafficking organizations, were […]

Each year, hundreds of thousands of women and children around the world become victims of the global sex trade. They are recruited into prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation, often using tactics involving force, fraud, or coercion. Criminals working in organized networks treat the victims like commodities, buying and selling them for profit. This […]

Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou has said that the number of prosecutions in connection with human trafficking offences had increased, and at the same time the police have tightened their operational controls. In 2013 the police filed charges against 34 persons, in 2014 against 50 persons, while during the first months of 2015 this number rose […]