Turkey has begun handing out food and other humanitarian aid to Syrians on their shared border, Turkey's disaster and emergency body said on Saturday.
"The distribution of humanitarian aid by our country right on the border with Syria has begun," Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) said in a statement.
Turkey has told the United Nations of the new practice and has opened a center in its southeastern town of Gaziantep to receive international aid, said AFAD, adding that it needed dried, tinned and baby food, bedding and personal hygiene items.
According to aid agencies, the humanitarian situation in Syria has deteriorated as fighting escalates, cutting off civilians from food supplies, healthcare and other assistance.
The U.N. refugee agency says that more than 170,000 Syrians have been registered as refugees in neighboring countries ? Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
Meanwhile, the Syrian government denied reports on Saturday that President Bashar al-Assad's deputy Farouq al-Sharaa had tried to defect to Jordan.
The vice-president's office said he "never thought for a moment about leaving the country", as government forces pressed an offensive against rebels, bombarding parts of Aleppo in the north and hitting an insurgent-held town in the oil-producing east.
Intellpuke: You can read this article by Guardian reporter Conal Urquhart, with reporting by various news agencies, in context here: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/18/un-observers-leave-syria
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