Syrian refugees poured across the border into Turkey to escape the regime’s crackdown on protesters as world powers struggled to reach a consensus on applying greater pressure on Damascus.
Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish foreign minister, told reporters on Thursday that at least 2,400 people had now reached Turkey, part of a wave of refugees fleeing from Jisr al-Shughour, the Syrian town and flashpoint of regime repression in the nearly three-month uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian activists said Idlib city, in the same province as Jisr al-Shughour, was surrounded by security forces and tanks were deploying in two towns in Aleppo province, which borders Turkey.