Gunfire spreads fear at Turkey
GUVECCI, Turkey (Reuters) Tracks used for decades to smuggle animals and petrol across the border between Turkey and Syria are becoming more hazardous by the day and people making the crossing now face mortal danger.
And it is not just those on foot who are at risk. Lorry drivers who have returned from Syria talk canada goose factory sale of dead bodies by the roadside and burned out military vehicles.
Syrian troops guarding the border are opening fire at that moves, residents and refugees said, apparently fearing armed infiltrators will cross into Syria to join a nine uk canada goose outlet month old uprising against President Bashar al Assad.
Karem Faidom, 26, from the Syrian port Canada Goose Jackets of Latakia, fled to Turkey nine months ago and now runs a small shop in Gorentas, a village on the border. He said he was shot at earlier this week canada goose uk shop as he tried to cross back into canada goose clearance Turkey.
nights ago, canada goose black friday sale some friends and I crossed over to Syria to bring back sugar and Canada Goose sale olive oil to sell in the shop and also to pay respects at my father grave, who was killed Canada Goose Coats On Sale near the border as he fled Syria, Faidom said.
was dark and we were going along this dirt track when suddenly a red light shone on us and they started shooting. We began to run. We were unarmed so the Turkish soldiers let us canada goose uk outlet back in. Somebody was hit in related https://www.canadagoosetomall.com Canada Goose Outlet the leg. Then we heard Syria said they Canada Goose Outlet had repelled infiltrators. That is ridiculous.
Another cheap Canada Goose Syrian man, who declined to be named, said: hear gunshots at night and during the day.
two men who crossed the Syrian border were shot, one in the face and the other in the arm. They were taken to Turkish hospitals, said the man who had taken shelter in Guvecci village, close to the border in Turkey Hatay province.
Residents and refugees from Syria sheltering with local families said smuggling back Canada Goose online and forth through the wooded hills was continuing, but they said canada goose coats on sale they had not seen any armed men infiltrating into buy canada goose jacket cheap Syria from Turkey.
Turkey long courted Assad after he canada goose store came to power in 2000, but is now calling for him to step down. It is also giving refuge to Syrian army defectors and hosting Syria opposition movement.
There is little sign of an increased Turkish military presence along the frontier but Syrian guards open fire at that moves, fearing they are infiltrators, said another Syrian who lives in Guvecci.
Rebel deserters with the canada goose uk black friday Free Syrian Army have said their forces clashed canada goose coats with the Syrian government this week, but denied they had moved into Syria from Turkey.
At the official border crossing at Cilvegozu, hundreds of Turkish trucks carrying canada goose food and goods for the Gulf waited to enter Syria.
Many of the drivers were nervous about the journey ahead and the tales of drivers leaving Syria gave them good cause for Canada Goose Parka concern.
ON ROAD anyone wants to end his life or kill himself, he should go to Syria, said 38 year old Turkish lorry driver Tayfun Sari who had just spent nine days crossing Syria from Jordan, a journey he said normally took him a day.
army is fighting against civilians. They are shooting civilians. Yesterday I saw five soldiers dead on the road after Homs to Turkey and nobody was doing anything for them. They were lying on the road, he said, his eyes bloodshot from lack of sleep.
Homs, civilians were cutting off the uk canada goose road with burning tires and the military was opening fire on protesters.
were many bullet shells on the road and some trucks had flat tires. I was caught in cross fire buy canada goose jacket but luckily my truck was not hit. I saw a Syrian military cheap canada goose uk vehicle on fire and a house on fire.
am never going back to Syria. That it.
He and other drivers waiting to enter Syria said they were increasingly singled out by Syrian government forces because of their government tough canadian goose jacket stance toward its neighbor.
Turkey, with the second biggest canada goose clearance sale army in NATO, said Friday it did not want to interfere in Syria internal affairs but could not stand by if its neighbor became a risk to regional security Canada Goose Online.