{"id":1810,"date":"2012-02-06T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-06T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T22:51:13","slug":"damascus-chases-its-opponents-at-syria-turkey-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/damascus-chases-its-opponents-at-syria-turkey-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Damascus Chases its Opponents at Syria-Turkey Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Intense gunfire rings out at Syria-Turkey frontier as Damascus moves to root out opposition in Syrian border village<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADO-World.org<\/strong><br \/>\n05-February-2012<\/p>\n<p>ANKARA &#8211; Intense gunfire rang out overnight at the Syria-Turkey frontier as Damascus moved to root out the opposition in a Syrian border village, a local source said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Turk living in a border village in southern Turkey&#8217;s Hatay province, machine gun fire rattled late into Saturday night in the Damascus-led operation against the opposition in the Ain al-Beida village.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We were very scared, the shots damaged our satellite dishes,&quot; said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish television station NTV quoted other villagers saying that another Syrian village, Khirbet al-Joz, had also been targetted by Syrian forces.<\/p>\n<p>According to press agency Anatolie, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has telephoned the governor of Hatay to obtain details about the situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Some 7,500 Syrians have fled violent repression to Turkey since anti-government protests began in March. Most are living in camps in Hatay.<\/p>\n<p>Once a close ally of Syria, Turkey has since been at the forefront of international criticism over the Damascus regime&#8217;s crackdown on protests.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also urged his once close friend, President Bashar al-Assad, to quit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middle-east-online.com\/english\/?id=50462\"><em>Middle East Online<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intense gunfire rings out at Syria-Turkey frontier as Damascus moves to root out opposition in Syrian border village ADO-World.org 05-February-2012 ANKARA &#8211; Intense gunfire rang out overnight at the Syria-Turkey frontier as Damascus moved to root out the opposition in a Syrian border village, a local source said Sunday. According to a Turk living in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/1810_Syria_Clashes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}