Syrian refugees in Turkey face rising hostility
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The earthquake in Turkey has worsened the plight of Syrian refugees who already face rising hostility, YouTube has rolled out a revenue sharing scheme to lure new content creators away from rival TikTok, and dark horse candidate Kazuo Ueda has upset expectations for the next Bank of Japan governor.
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.4 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:09.9 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.5 | Today is Monday, February 13th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.0 | In Southern Turkey, Syrians who fled their country's civil war are facing a new trauma. |
| 0:23.6 | They said when the earthquake hit, it felt like we were being punished for surviving the war. |
| 0:29.2 | And social media companies are leaning into short-form videos. |
| 0:33.5 | We'll talk about YouTube's latest move to bring in more content creators. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:48.6 | More than 33,000 people are reported to have died after last week's earthquake in Turkey and Syria. |
| 0:55.0 | Those who survived are struggling after being displaced from their homes. |
| 0:59.0 | The FT's riot jalebi was just in the city of geysian tap. |
| 1:02.4 | As soon as I got to geysian tap, I just saw makeshift tents all over the city, people |
| 1:07.2 | sort of burning bomb fires with whatever they could find to stay warm because the temperatures |
| 1:11.2 | would have been absolutely freezing all week. And they're just sort of sitting outside that |
| 1:15.6 | looking shell-shocked and completely grief-stricken. |
| 1:18.7 | Geysian tap is also a city where many Syrians found refuge after fleeing their country's civil war. |
| 1:25.0 | Raya spoke to them and found that they are especially vulnerable after the earthquake. |
| 1:29.3 | In the last few years as this sort of economic crisis has started to bite in Turkey, |
| 1:33.2 | a lot of Turks have turned more hostile to the Syrian population there. |
| 1:37.0 | So I was talking to a lot of the refugees this week who were saying that there's been so many |
| 1:41.2 | increasing tensions between Turks and Syrians in the last few years that this sort of felt like a |
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