At least 19 People, including children, have been killed as a truck carrying migrants crashed in the western Turkish province of Izmir on Sunday, state-owned Anadolu News agency reported.
The mangled wreckage of the open top truck lay toppled over in a canal, some 20 meters below a highway from which it apparently fell after crashing through a barrier.
According to reports the truck passengers were foreign migrants who had reached a deal with traffickers to be transported by boat to the Greek island of Samos, off the coast south of Izmir.
It was not clear where the migrants were from.
Turkey became one of the main launch points for more than a million migrants taking the sea route to EU territory in 2015, many fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.