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Associated Press
Dozens of members of Syria‘s military – including senior officers – have defected to Turkey with their families, according to a Turkish official.
The news comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries over Syria’s downing of a Turkish military plane.
The state-run Anadolu news agency said 33 soldiers, including a general and two colonels, crossed into Turkey overnight as part of a group of 224 people.
A government official, however, said the group included three colonels and there was no general among them. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government rules, did not know the overall number of defectors and the two accounts could not immediately be reconciled.
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