One problem with a neighbour

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In A small cafe outside Istanbul's Fatih mosque, a slight bearded man lifts his shirt to reveal two deep bullet wounds. "Assad's soldiers did this to me," says Mo-tee Albatee, who served as an imam at a Sunni mosque in the besieged Syrian town of Deraa until he fled the country several weeks ago. Mr Albatee is among a growing number of Syrian dissidents who have found sanctuary in Turkey, many of them in refugee camps near the border. Some are angry over the reluctance of Turkey's government to get tougher with Bashar Assad, Syria's president. "Turkey must set up a buffer zone [inside Syria]" to protect more refugees from the fighting, insists Yayha Be-dir, a member of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Like many seated around the ta- Christmas bonusee from underperform-ing pulic employess.