Syrians are fleeing to Turkey in larger numbers:
As many as 9,000 Syrians crossed into Turkey overnight to flee the violence in their country, a United Nations official said Friday, citing officials in Turkey where footage showed refugees climbing through the barbed-wire fence separating the two countries.
There are 120,000 Syrian refugees in Syria now.
Perhaps Turkish efforts to bully the Syrian military away from the border allowed more Syrians to avoid Assad's forces without fleeing to Turkey and instead become internal refugees.
The Turks are divided on intervention. Which is understandable. While many in the Arab world are angry that Turkey and Western powers aren't saving Syrian civilians even after 36,000 Syrians have died (that number includes government forces and rebels/terrorists in addition to civilians, I believe), intervention would prompt others in the Arab world (or even the same ones) to complain about imperialism and Western forces causing civilian casualties.
But how many Syrians seeking refuge in Turkey will be too much for Turkey to accept? If the rebels don't win, do the Turks want to host new Palestinians who will live forever on their soil because the refugees won't settle for anything less than returning to their ancestral home?
