Rights groups in Istanbul say between 600 and 1,500 Syrians were wrongfully returned to Syria from Istanbul in the past week, showing Turkey’s growing exasperation with the roughly 3.6 million Syrian refugees that have settled there.
When Amjad Tablieh went out to buy some groceries one night this week, he thought it would be a quick trip. But when police stopped him to ask for his identification card, known as aThe 18-year-old student from Damascus is one of a half-million Syrian refugees officially registered to live in Istanbul. But increasingly, he and others are finding that their welcome is fraying, and Turks want them to go back to the war-ravaged country they fled.
Tablieh posted a video describing his ordeal online. It went viral, and a few well-connected activists were able to obtain permission to have him returned to Istanbul. Others are not so lucky. Istanbul’s new mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, an opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who won a surprise victory last month, put the issue at the core of his campaign. He complained of Arabic signs dominating shop fronts, and said Syrians were stealing jobs from locals.
In the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Turkey had what was in effect an open-borders policy. Millions of Syrians escaped to Jordan and Lebanon, but it was Turkey, which shares a 510-mile border with Syria, that became the primary destination for refugees.They deluged cities, including Antakya and Gaziantep.
“Having unregistered Syrians is something that has been the case for several years, as has having Syrians working in an informal economy, or owning informal businesses,” said Kadkoy. On the morning of July 18, Hamda left his home to go work at a textile factory, and found himself before a police checkpoint.
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