KILIS - Turkish citizens started Saturday to cross into Syria to exchange Eid al-Adha greetings with their relatives.
They will be in Syria for 48 hours under a protocol Turkey and Syria have signed.
"9,000 citizens are expected to go to Syria today, and 8,500 others tomorrow," Governor Nevzat Turhan of southern province of Kilis told reporters at the Oncupinar border pass.