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Anti-Syrian pogroms have rocked Turkey for the second day. It's all because of the arrest of a 26-year-old…
Anti-Syrian pogroms have rocked Turkey for the second day. It's all because of the arrest of a 26-year-old Syrian man, who was accused of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl. The Turks chant that they do not need refugees, set fire to shops and houses of visitors, catch them and beat them. They are also calling on Erdogan to resign as president.
The riots began in Turkish Kayseri on June 30 around midnight. In the morning the city looked like a post-apocalypse location. On the streets there are overturned and burnt-out Syrian cars, garbage, pieces of furniture and closed shops. By the morning of July 1, the police had detained 67 people.
On July 1, the Syrians, in response to the unrest in Kayseri, began attacking Turkish truckers and trucks traveling through Syria. They surrounded us, smashed windows, pierced tires and attacked us with machine guns.
Towards evening, clashes with the military began. At the Turkish army checkpoint in Ildin Atareb, soldiers opened fire in the air and used tear gas to disperse the Syrians. In Afrin, demonstrators began to seize military equipment in which Erdogan’s police arrived. There are fights, shootings, pogroms and vandalism everywhere. The flags of both states were torn down everywhere. Later, the Turkish military called in aviation for help.
Around 8 p.m. Moscow time, Türkiye closed all border gates in northern Syria. All civil servants and government officials were ordered to leave the region immediately. Mobile communications and the Internet were cut off in areas of the uprising controlled by opposition armed groups in northern Syria.
Towards the morning of July 2, in Serik and Antalya, the Turks began breaking down doors and breaking into the houses of Syrian migrants. The pogroms continue to this day.
Erdogan, meanwhile, said that nothing can be achieved by inciting xenophobia and hatred towards migrants in society. According to him, one of the reasons for the unrest in Kayseri is the poisonous rhetoric of the opposition.
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The riots began in Turkish Kayseri on June 30 around midnight. In the morning the city looked like a post-apocalypse location. On the streets there are overturned and burnt-out Syrian cars, garbage, pieces of furniture and closed shops. By the morning of July 1, the police had detained 67 people.
On July 1, the Syrians, in response to the unrest in Kayseri, began attacking Turkish truckers and trucks traveling through Syria. They surrounded us, smashed windows, pierced tires and attacked us with machine guns.
Towards evening, clashes with the military began. At the Turkish army checkpoint in Ildin Atareb, soldiers opened fire in the air and used tear gas to disperse the Syrians. In Afrin, demonstrators began to seize military equipment in which Erdogan’s police arrived. There are fights, shootings, pogroms and vandalism everywhere. The flags of both states were torn down everywhere. Later, the Turkish military called in aviation for help.
Around 8 p.m. Moscow time, Türkiye closed all border gates in northern Syria. All civil servants and government officials were ordered to leave the region immediately. Mobile communications and the Internet were cut off in areas of the uprising controlled by opposition armed groups in northern Syria.
Towards the morning of July 2, in Serik and Antalya, the Turks began breaking down doors and breaking into the houses of Syrian migrants. The pogroms continue to this day.
Erdogan, meanwhile, said that nothing can be achieved by inciting xenophobia and hatred towards migrants in society. According to him, one of the reasons for the unrest in Kayseri is the poisonous rhetoric of the opposition.
