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Turkey detains 500 trying to cross from Syria
(MENAFN- Arab News) ANKARA: Turkey's security forces detained nearly 500 people attempting to cross the border from war-torn Syria on Saturday the army announced.
'A total of 488 people were detained by the land forces command border units while trying to cross into Turkey from Syria and 26 while attempting to cross into Syria from Turkey' the army said on Sunday in a statement posted on its website.
The army statement did not reveal the nationalities of those detained.
Turkey has often boasted of an 'open-door' policy championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and taken in 1.8 million refugees since the Syrian conflict started in 2011 but has repeatedly complained that it has been left to shoulder an unfair burden.
Several hundred thousand refugees are sheltered in camps along the border with Syria but the vast majority of them are scattered throughout the country including the mega city Istanbul.
Turkey has long been under international pressure to tighten the security of its volatile 911-km border with Syria to cut the flow of radicals who try to join the ranks of Daesh.
'A total of 488 people were detained by the land forces command border units while trying to cross into Turkey from Syria and 26 while attempting to cross into Syria from Turkey' the army said on Sunday in a statement posted on its website.
The army statement did not reveal the nationalities of those detained.
Turkey has often boasted of an 'open-door' policy championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and taken in 1.8 million refugees since the Syrian conflict started in 2011 but has repeatedly complained that it has been left to shoulder an unfair burden.
Several hundred thousand refugees are sheltered in camps along the border with Syria but the vast majority of them are scattered throughout the country including the mega city Istanbul.
Turkey has long been under international pressure to tighten the security of its volatile 911-km border with Syria to cut the flow of radicals who try to join the ranks of Daesh.
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