In Turkey's capital, Ankara, a mob of hundreds attacked Syrian refugees and vandalised their property in the Altindag neighbourhood. Trouble arose came after 18-year-old Emirhan Yalcin, a Turk, was murdered in a fight between Syrian refugees and Turkish locals.
Turkey currently hosts more than three million Syrians.
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ReplyDeletexenophobic posts spread across social networks with hashtags like "We don't want any Syrians," "We don't want any Afghans," and "Turkey for the Turks."
The CHP recently ratcheted its anti-refugee rhetoric up a notch. CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu declared that if his party came to power he would send all refugees back to their countries of origin.