Has Turkey’s policy on Syrian refugees started to backfire?
The Syrian refugee question is set to pose a major political headache for Erdogan in the coming period.
The myth of Turkish sympathy and tolerance toward Syrian refugees, which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been promoting self-righteously for years, is crumbling fast. Research shows that an increasing number of Turks now see the Syrians as unwelcome guests and a source of social unrest and economic disruption.
This has left Erdogan and his administration grappling with a problem that is considered by many to be largely of the government's own making.
