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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Desperate Syrians cross a hazardous border to Turkey - The Washington Post

Desperate Syrians cross a hazardous border to Turkey

View Photo Gallery — Syrian refugee children stand in a hall of the Altinozu camp in Hatay city, located on the border with their violence-racked homelandon Sept. 18, 2012. More photos: Syrian refugees flock to Turkey and Jordan

By William Booth, Saturday, September 22, 9:55 AM

ATMEH, Syria — These are the ways a Syrian gets into Turkey: Legally, with a passport. Bleeding, in an ambulance. Or without papers, in a heart-pounding dash at night through a field of cucumbers, as Turkish border guards shout curses and fire shots in the air and smugglers shove their clients through a gap in the barbed wire fence, hissing “Hurry, hurry, hurry.”

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