Is Turkey doing all it can to secure its border?

Reports of 11 foreign medics joining the Islamic State have raised fresh questions on Turkey's enforcement of its Syrian border.
Militant Islamist fighters waving flags, travel in vehicles as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. The fighters held the parade to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighbouring Iraq, a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot previously known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), posted pictures online on Sunday of people waving black flags from car
Militant Islamist fighters waving flags take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province, June 30, 2014. -
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After so much fuss and ruckus, does Turkey’s open-door policy for Syrians still apply to the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda-linked groups? The question has popped up once again following reports that 11 Sudanese doctors and medical interns of British, American and Canadian nationalities crossed from Turkey to Syria to treat wounded IS fighters.

Such questions have become intolerable for Turkish government officials lately. Even soft-spoken Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu snapped at questions recently over the three British girls who made it to Syria via Turkey. “They keep criticizing Turkey. We strongly reject that,” he said, insisting that Turkey was doing its best and did not deserve criticism.

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