“Social media is bringing the brewing anger to a boiling point, thanks to the enormous amount of fake or inaccurate news, and popular accounts disseminating them,” Akkoyunlu added.Īnecdotal evidence suggests that social media posts often exaggerate the number of refugees in Turkey and the benefits they receive from the government. Turkey has received a stupendous number of refugees and migrants in recent years and there is a sense that the government is letting this happen,” Karabekir Akkoyunlu, a lecturer in politics of the Middle East at SOAS, University of London, told Al Jazeera. There is a search for culprits and, unsurprisingly, refugees and immigrants are easy targets. “The economic crisis is getting deeper, the people are getting poorer by the day, youth unemployment is rising. Turkey hosts approximately 3.7 million Syrian refugees. The murder in Bagcilar is just one in a series of attacks against refugees in cities across Turkey over the past year. “In the past, there was a similar situation between Turks and Kurds, those from X high school and those from Y high school, or those from an upper-class neighbourhood and a lower-class neighbourhood,” Gokay said of some of the rival factions in question. “n areas like Bagcilar where the symbol of power is brute force, this is now directly affecting the refugees from Syria,” Gokay, a longtime Bagcilar resident, told Al Jazeera. Locals say tensions between different groups existed in low-income areas like Bagcilar long before Syrian refugees arrived. One onlooker speculated that the gunfire was an attempt to threaten the owner of a barbershop on the street. During a recent reporting trip to the area, at least half a dozen gunshots were fired into the air from a vehicle that quickly drove down a street.ĭozens of people rushed to the scene, some Turks were quick to blame Syrians.
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