Syrian army enters village bordering Turkey: Activist
NICOSIA: Syrian troops backed by tanks on Thursday stormed a village along the Turkish border, where thousands fleeing a violent crackdown on dissent have massed, an activist at the scene told AFP.
Syrian security forces entered the northern village of Khirbet al-Joz in the early morning, the activist told AFP in Nicosia by telephone.
Across the border, in Turkey, witnesses told AFP they saw soldiers and tanks approach the frontier.
A resident of the Turkish border village of Guvecci said he saw soldiers crossing a hill less than a kilometre (mile) from the Syrian-Turkish border.
A Turkish flag which was raised a few days earlier by Syrian refugees in gratitude for Ankara's hospitality was replaced by a Syrian flag, an AFP journalist witnessed.
Gunshots and explosions were heard Tuesday from the Syrian side of Turkey's border with the unrest-hit Arab country, where thousands of fleeing people have taken refuge.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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