{"id":105396,"date":"2011-06-14T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T08:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=105396"},"modified":"2011-06-14T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T08:30:30","slug":"thousands-of-syrians-crossing-border-into-turkey-to-escape-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/14\/thousands-of-syrians-crossing-border-into-turkey-to-escape-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Syrians Cross Border into Turkey to Escape Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports say hundreds of Syrians have been\u00a0gathering on the northern border with Turkey, preparing to cross over if the Syrian army advances further into the area after seizing the rebellious town of Jisr al-Shughour, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2011\/06\/201161313657153837.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Al-Jazeera Englis<\/span><\/strong>h<\/a>.<br \/>\nSyrian security forces\u00a0announced on Sunday they had retaken Jisr al-Shughur after army\u00a0troops, backed by helicopter gunships and tanks, moved into the northern town.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 7,000 Syrians have so far crossed the border with Turkey to escape violence, and an estimated 10,000 more are waiting for the opportunity to cross.<\/p>\n<p>The refugees are\u00a0making use of unofficial border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said those still in Syria had taken shelter among trees near the border since forces moved into the northwestern province of Idlib.<\/p>\n<p>The uprising, now in\u00a0its third month, seeks an end to Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s one-party rule, more political freedom and an end to corruption and poverty.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 7,000 Syrians have so far crossed the border with Turkey to escape violence, and an estimated 10,000&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23931,23837,28189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}