Most likely, the Syrian regime will not honor the international initiative and therefore the number of refugees will continue to increase.

While Tureky's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara would not close its doors in the face of those displaced Syrians who fled the bloody crackdown, he stepped up the pressure on the international community calling for a stronger position.

In fact, the assumption in Ankara is that President Bashar Assad will not keep his promise to withdraw his troops from troubled cities. The Syrian people have no faith in the UN-backed plan to affect a positive change. The Syrian opposition believes that Assad is just buying time to implement his scheme of winning the showdown with the opposition and the rebels.

Despite the regime’s policy of mining the border to prevent people from crossing the border into Turkey, some 3,000 refugees crossed the border on Friday.

With the number of refugees is on the increase, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against the escalation of the crisis. He called on the Syrian regime to “urgently” implement the Annan’s plan. He also called on Assad “to show vision and leadership.”

“Cities, towns and villages have been turned into war zones. The sources of violence are proliferating,” Ban told the UN General Assembly. “The human rights of the Syrian people continue to be violated... Humanitarian needs are growing dramatically.”

Evidently, the Syrian troops have been taking advantage of the plan and Syrian has witnessed an intensification rather than reduction in the bloodshed and violence. The government officials and the rebel fighters are exchanging accusations over the crisis. While rebel fighters are certain that the regime is exploiting the time in order to affect a complete crackdown on the opposition regardless of the regional consequences, the government officials say that the rebels have been impeded the withdrawal by continuing the fight.

The standstill is hurting the Syrian people. While the international community is not taking firm steps to put a price tag on the regime's defiant iron fist policy, the Syrians continue their run from what seems as an inevitable death. Senior officials in Ankara say that Syrian refugees crossed the border to a Turkish village of Bukulmez but more numbers of them were waiting on the Syrian side of the border. More than a year of Assad’s strategy of buying time has caused him a lot. He lost the trust of previous allies such as the Turkish premier.

On Thursday, Erdogan stated that he no longer trusted Assad to comply with the UN backed peace plan. “He shoots people but pretends he is withdrawing troops. He is not withdrawing troops but he is duping the international community,” he said.

The gravity of the refugees’ situation cannot be more striking. Even a country as big as Turkey is calling for international help to enable Turkey to continue its open door policy for refugees. The latest onslaught of the regime has triggered a new wave of refugees into Turkey to the extent that Ankara warned the UN that it would soon call for international help to cope with the influx of the increasing number of refugees. The Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, called Ban Ki-Moon; to ask for observers to evaluate the situation after some 2,800 Syrians crossed the border on Thursday alone.

On the whole, the Turkish leadership is telling the world that Assad is not trustworthy. In his telephone call with the UN secretary-general, the Turkish foreign minister said that the deterioration of the refugee problem was a clear indication that the Syrian regime would not comply with the cease-fire agreement.

“I have told him that the arrivals have doubled in rate after Assad said he would implement Kofi Annan’s plan...Those who are giving him time should also know that the number of fleeing Syrians is increasing and this is turning into an international problem,” he said.

Therefore, short of adopting a strong international stand against Assad's onslaught on the protesters, more refugees are expected to flee the country, a step that could add further burdens on neighboring states such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey.