Turkey/Syria border only open for "emergency situations" Fifteen-year-old Mohammad Rahma is one of the few Syrians allowed to cross into Turkey from northern Syria for medical treatment, after he was blinded by a Russian air strike a month ago. Turkish humanitarian groups also sent in truckloads of aid for tens of thousands of people stranded on the border after fleeing a Russia-backed regime offensive on the northern region of Aleppo. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES