Syrian rebels and eyewitnesses claimed that Turkey had allowed Islamist rebels to enter Syria for the Kasab offensive; the Erdogan government denied the claim. An Adana prosecutor who in January stopped and searched trucks on suspicion they were carrying weapons into Syria has been removed from his post and reassigned; two officers arrested in the same incident were released. About 280 police officers, including some in counterterrorism units, were reassigned in four provinces in the past two days. An official said Turkey now hosts over 900,000 Syrian refugees.
