(Damascus, July 2 Xinhua) - the President of Syria Bashar al - Assad Saturday sacked Governor of the central province of Hama Ahmed Khaled Abdul-Aziz, healthy news agency official of informed Syria without giving further details.
Al - Assad, since the outbreak of protests in March, has dismissed three Governors as part of many other gestures made calm the demonstrators demanding radical reforms in Syria, namely, the Governors of Latakia, Homs and the southern province of Daraa, which has been the epicentre of protests.
Syria has been in turmoil since mid-March when anti-Government protests erupted in the southern province of Daraa and spread to other Syrian cities. Syria blamed the unrest on "armed groups and foreign conspiracy" and noted it could locate to gunmen who have been intimidated to persons and damage to public and private property.
The Government said hundreds of security officers and policemen were killed by gunmen since the outbreak of protests. Syrian opposition, however, accused the security forces crackdown Syrian hard protests.
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Number of Syrians taking refuge in Turkey falls to 10,547
NKARA, Xinhua, July 2)-number of the Syrian people, who fled the violence in the home and will retreat in Turkey declined to 10,547 as of Saturday, said an official statement.
A total of 15,205 Syrian citizens had fled to Turkey, 4,658 of whom have returned to his country until Saturday, according to the Communique released by the disaster of the first Turkish Ministry and the direction of emergency (AFAD) management. Full story
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