With a wide smile, he places a Desert Eagle .50 pistol on to his polished wooden desk, where it sits next to a piece of paper covered with mobile phone numbers.
Each belongs to a migrant going to Europe and thus is worth money — lots of it — to people-traffickers like this man, who operates from an office in Basmane, a shabby suburb of the Turkish port Izmir, overlooking the Aegean Sea.
He has smuggled hundreds of Syrians to Kos, the Greek holiday island which is being overrun by migrants.
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