20 Syrian soldiers have defected to Turkey

                            

ANKARA, KOMPAS.com - Some 20 Syrian soldiers, including an army general on Tuesday (1/1), fled to Turkey. They were later joined by hundreds of former Syrian soldiers who have been first to Turkey, a Turkish diplomat told AFP on Tuesday.

"The soldier who fled to Turkey that included a general , three colonels and a few other officers, "the source said on condition of anonymity that.

About 40 people, including the defectors and their families across the border province of Hatay, southern Turkey. They were taken to a refugee camp Apaydin, which holds all the Syrian army defector, said the official Turkish news agency Anatolia.

Since the beginning of the civil war between the government forces of President Bashar al-Assad and the rebels, dozens of senior officers darata force includes about 40 generals had defected and fled to Turkey.

Turkish authorities refused to mention the exact number of Syrian defectors, who usually joined the Syrian Liberation Army (FSA) is an anti-Bashar.

Turkey, which supports the rebels, accommodating about 150,000 Syrian refugees in camps near the border between the two countries.