(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121005-turkey-syria-border-gubash-430a.photoblog600.jpg)Charlene Gubash / NBC NewsEmin Belgin, a truck driver (second from right), enjoys a rare peaceful evening at a sidewalk cafe in Akcakale, Turkey. The city is located seven miles from the Syrian border. By NBC News's Charlene Gubash and wire reportsAKCAKALE, Turkey -- The residents of a Turkish town allowed themselves to relax a little even as they mourned neighbors killed after a mortar from across the border in Syria slammed into a house, killing two women and three children (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/03/14200329-turkey-strikes-targets-in-syria-after-mortar-attack-kills-5).
"We couldn't sleep the last 10 days. We covered our ears in fear. Today was quiet for the first time -- nothing happened," cotton farmer Ussein Avsar told NBC News as he sat at an outdoor café.
Avsar says he can now return to his fields, which are just two miles from the Syrian border.
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