Syrian refugees recount harassment, abuse in Turkey
Syrian refugees in Turkey are living in constant fear among rising attacks, while the Turkish government increases restrictions on them.
Fear is rising among Syrian refugees in Turkey amid growing hate speech and murder targeting them.
Istanbul alone witnessed within a month two separate killings of two young Syrians. The young men’s bodies were moved to Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib.
On June 14, social media activists circulated a video showing the killing of Sultan Abdul Baset Jabneh a day earlier in the Taksim district in Istanbul, after Jabneh was stabbed in front of his shop in Taksim.
On June 6, six young Turkish men killed Sherif Khaled al-Ahmad, a 22-year-old Syrian refugee, in the Bagcilar district in Istanbul. A few hours before he was shot and killed, Ahmad told his friends that he was going to propose to a woman he was dating. He also told them that he was bored with life in Bagcilar where he resided and was thinking of returning to northern Syria or even crossing into Europe, a far-fetched dream for many Syrian refugees.
