HATAY, Turkey—Along this porous frontier, Syria’s conflict is increasingly migrating onto Turkish soil, reshaping communities and feeding fears that Ankara’s support for rebel groups could backfire, igniting fresh violence on this side of the border.
For more than a year, a deadly combination of car bombs, artillery shells and stray gunfire has spilled across the frontier, leaving over 70 Turks dead. Once-sleepy Turkish towns now teem with refugees, smugglers and fighters en route to Syria’s battlegrounds. Sprawling,…
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