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Click on map for larger version. YAYLADAGI, Turkey -- It's a brilliant fall morning in Yayladagi #1, a refugee camp on the grounds of a former tobacco processing factory in southern Turkey. We're just three miles from the Syrian border, and camp translator Jamal Akgol is showing us down ...
... of this insurgency," Landis said. Also, the brutal battle between the Syrian opposition and government forces is causing many Syrians to cross the border into Turkey to escape the violence, creating a humanitarian crisis that is straining Turkish resources. "Turkey has a 530-mile border with Syria, and Syria is ...
In Photos: Approximately 9,000 Syrian refugees have fled into Turkey in the past 24 hours, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
... bring down a foreign plane. What provoked Turkey to take this very assertive step? SONER CAGAPTAY: I would say two things. One is, this is Turkey upping the ante with the Assad regime, because Turkey is the spearhead of the international community's policies to confront his slaughter of the ...
JEFFREY BROWN: A diplomatic row between Russia and Turkey has erupted over the grounding of a plane in Turkish airspace. Margaret Warner reports. MARGARET WARNER: Turkish military jets forced the Syrian passenger plane to land last night at Ankara, after it entered Turkish airspace en route from Moscow to Damascus ...
... of this? Could it lead to something bigger? HENRI BARKEY: Well, it's hard to see how it will get to something bigger. It is Turkey and Syria, because there's a position in Turkey, generally an opposition in Turkey to going into Syria. The Turks actually want us, the ...
... and brotherly people of Turkey. LINDSEY HILSUM: Inside Syria, the war grows ever more bitter. Neighboring countries and world powers have picked sides and are providing arms and other support. It's clear that no one, least of all Turkey and Syria, wants the war to spill over the border.
... Turkey would take part? AHMET DAVUTOGLU: Turkey is already taking part. MARGARET WARNER: No, I mean in a military sense. AHMET DAVUTOGLU: Yes, of course. Turkey will be not only on this, but Turkey will be in all processes related to Syria. MARGARET WARNER: If there is an action taken ...
... Syrian Army, have sheltered inside Turkey, funneling weapons across the border. But last weekend, they said they're moving their headquarters back into Syria. For Turkey, the Syrian conflict also threatens its own internal stability. Tensions are building in Turkey's Hatay Province, along western Syria. Minority Alawites there have ...
Brzezinski: U.S. Should Work With Russia, Turkey to Solve Global Problems
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