Syrian activists on 2-day hunger strike

KILIS, Turkey (AP) — Scores of activists are staging a two-day hunger strike near the border with Syria to protest the Syrian government's refusal to allow them entry to deliver aid and medical supplies for victims of the deadly crackdown on dissidents.

Moayed Skaif, a member of the "Freedom Convoy" said Friday group members are refusing food in a bid to protest Syria and to force Turkey into pressuring Syrian authorities into allowing the aid.

The activists — mostly Syrians who traveled from the United States and elsewhere — have set up tents in a makeshift campsite some 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the border after Syria denied them and their aid entry.

The U.N. estimates more than 5,000 people have died in Syria since the uprising began there in March.