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Thursday, November 01, 2012

AFP: Turkish village lives in fear of Syrian war

Turkish village lives in fear of Syrian war

By Jennie Matthew (AFP) – 2 hours ago

OVECCI KOYU, Turkey — Sixteen-year-old Nazire was out in the fields, sitting under a tree when the shooting started. Bullets whizzed past her face and she was terrified.

The Syrian war was spilling into Turkey.

"If I had moved my head, I would have been shot and then nothing would have happened because they're Syrian soldiers and I'm just a villager," said the teenager in her pink trousers and flowered headscarf, in Turkey's southwestern village of Ovecci Koyu.

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