Turkey's Cilvegozu gate re-opens after blast near Syrian border

Turkey's Cilvegozu border gate reopened days after a car bombing killing 14 people forced the crossing with Syria to close, private Dogan news agency reported Thursday. The border gate reopened at 10:30 local time (GMT 0730), according to the report. One suspect was detained Wednesday as part of an investigation into the blast at the Turkish-Syrian border gate, local newspaper Today's Zaman reported. At least 14 people, including three Turkish citizens, were killed and dozen others injured in the blast, which apparently targeted Syrian opposition figures who were supposed to go through the area of incident. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to take actions on the blast after the investigation into the case is completed. "We will wait patiently until the details of a deadly bomb attack at the Cilvegozu border gate are fully clarified, and will then take all required steps without hesitation," said Erdogan. Reyhanli town, where the Cilvegozu gate is located, is 45 km from Syria's Idlib and 60 km from Aleppo, two towns that have become the main battlefields between Syrian rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces. More than 170,000 Syrian refugees, including army defectors, are taking shelter in camps in Turkey. Dozens of mortar shells from Syria landed on Turkish soil last year, with one of the stray shells killing five Turkish nationals in October in the southern town of Akcakale.