Turkish police detained two Georgian nationals after a woman was caught trying to smuggle herself into the country curled up inside a tiny suitcase . Customs officials working at the Sarpi border crossing , close to the city of Artvin , ordered officers to inspect a suitcase belonging to a 25-year-old man after he was spotted acted suspiciously . Upon opening the luggage officers were shocked to discover a 22-year-old woman curled up inside . She later told officers that she tried to smuggle herself in to the country because a previous conviction in the country meant she had been banned from travelling there . Scroll down for video . Discovered : Turkish police detained two the Georgian nationals after the 22-year-old woman was caught trying to smuggle herself into the country curled up inside a tiny suitcase . Compact : Customs officials working at the Sarpi border crossing , close to the city of Artvin , ordered officers to inspect a suitcase belonging to a 25-year-old man after he was spotted acted suspiciously . Turkish police detained the pair after customs officials made the discovery on Monday , but they were both later released , sent back to Georgia and ordered not to return . The woman told investigators that she had an outstanding ban on her travelling to Turkey after being convicted of an unspecified offence . It was not immediately clear what had attracted customs officials to the 25-year-old Georgian man , but the suitcase in which the woman was hidden was barely large enough to hold a human body . The tight squeeze forced her to curl up into an uncomfortable-looking fetal position . Hidden : The tight squeeze forced her to curl up into an uncomfortable-looking fetal position . The border crossing where the couple had tried to smuggle themselves in Turkey lies near Sarp - a tiny town on the Black Sea , around 50 miles north of the city of Artvin . Although Sarp is home to just 212 people , it is one of only three official border crossings along the 170-mile long Turkey-Georgia border . The Sarp border crossing , in the District of Hopa , Artvin Province , opened in the late 1980s , when Georgia was still part of the Soviet Union . After independence in 1991 , post-communist Georgia suffered from civil unrest and economic crisis for most of the 1990s . Georgia covers a territory of 26,911 square miles , and its population is almost five million .
Customs officials discovered the 22-year-old hiding in a suitcase in Turkey . Searched suitcase of 25-year-old man who was spotted acting suspiciously . They were shocked to find the woman curled up in the fetal position inside . She later told police officers that she had been banned from entering Turkey due to a previous conviction in the country . Georgians were subsequently deported and ordered not to return to Turkey .