Prepared by: Geostrategic Studies Team
An elderly woman is beaten and humiliated by Turkish racists in the city of Gaziantep (A report on the daily crimes committed by the Turkish state against Syrian refugees)
After the spread of a video showing a Syrian refugee woman being insulted and beaten by Turkish extremists in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, the media circles began to show the extent of the daily violations that Syrian refugees are subjected to, including insults, beatings and torture. There are many cases that occurred in a large number of Turkish cities, where Syrian refugees are exposed.
According to human rights and media reports, this incident is not the first or the last against the Syrians, because there are sponsors inside and outside the Turkish government trying to cover up those who commit such violations against the Syrians in Turkey.
A Turk brutally kicks an elderly Syrian refugee... and a wide campaign of solidarity on social media (video and tweets). Click here to view the news.).
In an investigation published by Al-Hurra channel on January 8, 2021: a Syrian child victim of a "brutal and hysterical beating" at the hands of the Turks.
The incidents of racism in Turkey against Syrian refugees take an escalating trend, as hardly a day passes without an incident being announced here and another there, and it varies between verbal racism and others more severe than that. A Syrian child named Muhammad Al-Ahmad, after he was assaulted by a Turkish man in the Onder neighborhood of the capital, Ankara.
In similar cases, Syrian refugees in Turkey were subjected to killings, torture and humiliation at the hands of Turkish racists and under the auspices of some Turkish security and military authorities.
On July 17, the 17-year-old Syrian youth, Hamza Ajan, was killed in a quarrel in the state of Bursa, according to what the Turkish newspaper “Duvar” reported, in addition to a video recording spread on social media, in which the young man’s father appeared and narrated the incident.
A group of Turkish racists gather around a Syrian youth, punching and kicking him, without stopping.
On 27 of 2021, the Syrian young man, Ali Hamdan Al-Asani, was killed by a bullet in the chest fired by a police officer. The day after the incident, the Adana Province issued a statement saying that the police teams of the Seyhan Police Department in the state, injured the young Ali Al-Asani when a warning shot was fired, After escaping from a checkpoint in the Sogo Zade neighborhood.
In addition to the physical attacks, on June 30, 2019, Syrian shops were subjected to attacks in the Ikteli district of Istanbul, as a result of allegations that a Syrian had molested a Turkish girl. According to what the Security Directorate said at the time.
The severity of these attacks varies between physical attacks and verbal attacks, either directly, face to face, or through social media through posts or tweets, some of which are published by Turkish politicians.
During the past seven years, a number of Turkish cities witnessed campaigns of revenge and sabotage of Syrian shops, as well as attacks on Syrian refugees. According to reports, the Turkish authorities were not dealing with the Turkish aggressors to ensure the lives of the Syrians, and this caused some Turkish racists to continue to carry out more sabotage of the shops belonging to the Syrian refugees.
Cases of revenge suffered by some Syrians, and the fate of some of them was premeditated murder, and there are many crimes whose perpetrators have not been held accountable.
Many accounts spoke of the practice of extortion by some security and police elements, as well as officials in some humanitarian organizations, against a number of Syrian refugee women.
