Turkey detains nearly 500 people trying to cross from Syria

[WorldNews]

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Turkey's security forces detained nearly 500 people attempting to cross the border from war-torn Syria on Saturday, the army announced. "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. 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.

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