After anti-Syrian riots in Turkey, what's next?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A wave of anti-Syrian violence in Turkey has resulted in unprecedented retaliatory protests and attacks on Turkish military bases in northwestern Syria. At the same time, Turkey is seeking to normalize relations with the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. What does it mean for millions of Syrians in Turkey?
In this episode:
- Sinem Köseoğlu (@sinemkoseoglu), Al Jazeera Turkey Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Chloe K. Li, and Sonia Bhagat with Amy Walters, Duha Mossad, Veronique Ishaya, Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan, David Enders and our host Malika Bilal.
The Take production team is Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra, Catherine Nouhan, Chloe K. Li, David Enders, Duha Mosaad, Khaled Soltan, Manahil Naveed, Marcos Bartolomé, Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, and Tamara Khandaker.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, the precarious reality for Syrian refugees in Turkey. |
| 0:16.0 | Riots against Syrian immigrants living in the country have spread to several cities now with shops and buildings set on fire. |
| 0:24.8 | What a wave of anti-refugee violence in Turkey and the response to it in Syria reveal about the status of millions of displaced Syrians. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 0:52.2 | There was this video leaked through social media. |
| 0:55.5 | That video was showing a Syrian young man, allegedly sexually harassing a Syrian girl who was around 6 years old. |
| 1:05.1 | And that girl is said to be this young man's cousin. |
| 1:11.7 | Sinan Kusoleu is an Al Jazeera correspondent based in Istanbul. |
| 1:16.2 | She's been covering the spade of violent attacks against Syrian refugees |
| 1:19.8 | that were happening all across Turkey last week. |
| 1:23.7 | It all started with this video. |
| 1:26.7 | The Soviet was leaked in the central city of Kayseri. |
| 1:32.1 | Kayseri is a conservative and nationalist city, by the way. |
| 1:36.7 | But the number of the Syrian refugees living in the city is not that high compared to the other places. |
| 1:42.8 | There are at least 80,000 Syrians living in that city. |
| 1:47.1 | So when the video was seen by people, people took to the streets. |
| 1:52.1 | And they started chanting that they don't want any Syrian refugees in their country. |
| 1:57.7 | And some MPs, especially from the Nationalist Party, were on the ground as well. |
| 2:02.1 | The governor was on the ground. The city's police director was on the ground. And people were so |
| 2:08.1 | angry. They were cursing the Syrian refugees and they said they are fed up and they don't want |
| 2:14.9 | any of those kinds of abuse scenes to be seen. |
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