Kenneth Roth @KenRoth Turkey's bountiful shelves contrast starkly with the severe deprivation of northern #Syria. Cross-border aid needed.http://trib.al/ZsS5tJd Collapse Reply Retweet Favorite Buffer More 8:16 AM - 27 Jan 13 · Details For Syrian Refugees, a Border Separates 'Heaven' from Hell By Piotr Zalewski / Öncüpınar, Turkey and Azaz, SyriaJan. 25, 20133 Comments inShare1 ZAC BAILLIE / AFP / GETTY IMAGES A Syrian refugee child helps a man to collect wood at a refugee camp on the Syria-Turkey border, on Jan. 9, 2013. The internally displaced Syrians faced further misery due to increasing shortage of supplies as heavy rain was followed by a drop in temperatures. Email Print Share Comment Follow @TIMEWorld Were it not for the white, nondescript container houses, Turkey's Öncüpınar refugee camp could easily pass for a small, lively town. On a recent afternoon in the camp that houses nearly 14,000 Syrians, young families sauntered past dozens of stalls stocked with anything from jeans to falafel and tea. Children, having just sat through exams, poured out of a newly built school. Inside a shed covered with sheets of blue tarp, Ahmet, a barber all of 16 years old, cropped a customer's mustache. It was his first day in business, he said, and it felt good to have work. Life is far from perfect in Öncüpınar, of course. Its residents are here, after all, only because Syria's civil war forced them to flee their homes. At night, the sound of shelling from across the border keeps the children awake in the cramped containers, some providing shelter to more than ten people. At the local supermarket, where customers pay with e-vouchers issued by the UN's World Food Program (WFP) and the Turkish Red Crescent, there are complaints about prices. The monthly food allowance of 80...
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