Posted on 08/12/2021 5:03:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Anti-migrant protesters have attacked houses, shops and cars owned by Syrians in Turkey's capital after tensions flared over the alleged killing of a local teenager.
The violence erupted on Wednesday night following reports that a Syrian refugee had stabbed two Turkish men in a fight.
Hundreds of locals descended on an area of Ankara where a community of Syria migrants and refugees live.
Videos online showed groups of men overturning cars and vandalising shops.
Anti-migrant sentiment in Turkey has been rising in recent years, with a number of politicians campaigning for harsher restrictions.
Tensions have flared recently with the arrival of thousands of Afghans fleeing a rapidly escalating war in their country.
The United Nations estimates that Turkey currently hosts the largest number of refugees worldwide, including more than three million Syrians.
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Once again: We’re No. 1 as we have over ten million illegal aliens. Turkey’s migrants are chump change compared to ours.
It is not just the Kurds, then, that Turkey is having a dispute with, but ALL Syrians in general.
You cannot be nice to a porcupine. No matter how carefully you try to pet one, you will soon get pretty painful quills shot at you.
And we do not have 10 million illegal aliens, we have like about 30 million, more coming daily to a town near you.
Protests against bearded ones! So, muzzies don’t want more muzzies in their country! What are they afraid of? Terror attacks? rapes? What muzzophobes!
There are 3.7 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, which is equal to about 4.5% of Turkey’s population.
One of the things that was a great destabilizer in Lebanon was the large population of Palestinian refugees (most of who arrived when Jordon kicked Arafat and his followers out of the West Bank). That refugee population is barely 3% of population of Lebanon and most were in the area of Beirut. Well, the 485 thousand of the Syrian refugees settled in the area of Istanbul represent about 3% of the population of Istanbul.
Add to that issue the fact that the Kurdish “minority” in Turkey, politically suppressed by Turkey, is close to about 18% of the population of Turkey, and you have to wonder if Turkey will go the way of Lebanon - always unstable.
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