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Monday, February 24, 2014

Turkey’s imposition on Syrian opposition? - VERDA ÖZER

Turkey’s imposition on Syrian opposition?

Last Thursday, heavy clashes broke out between pro-Assad forces and al-Qaeda-linked groups on the Akçakale gate on the Turkish-Syrian border in southeastern Turkey. By coincidence, on the very same day I was at the Akçakale refugee camp, which is one of the four camps for Syrian refugees based in Urfa province. The camp usually hosts about 30,000 refugees. But that day 10,000 refugees rushed across the border gate, which must have raised the number of the refugees in the camp considerably.

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