Quoted by Al-Jazeera
More than 3 million Syrian refugees are in Turkey. But a riot of Anti-Syrian broke out in Turkey, when police arrested a Syrian man for allegedly sexually abusing a Syrian girl, aged seven years old, in the central city of Kayseria.
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Hundreds of people got rage due to this and started chanting anti-immigrant slogans.
On Sunday, they started flipping the cars and set Syrian-run shops alight in Kayseria. They demanded for Syrians to be kicked out of the country.
In the Southern province of Hatay, protesters det Syrian grocery store on a blaze along with damaging houses, workplaces and vehicles.
Officials Response:
In response to this, the Turkish government demanded peace. Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya stated that
The riots “damaged houses, workplaces, and vehicles belonging to Syrian nationals “illegally in an attitude that does not suit our human values”.
Further, he added in a post on X
“474 people were detained after the provocative actions”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated
“It is unacceptable to burn houses, vandalise and set streets on fire,” he said on Monday of the violence. “Nothing can be achieved by fuelling xenophobia and hatred of refugees in society.”
