>Istanbul, Turkey – Turkish police have detained eight suspects over the stabbing and killing of a young Syrian refugee in Istanbul on Monday.
>Nail al-Naif, 19, was sleeping in his room in Istanbul’s Bayrampasa district when a group of men broke in about 2am, stabbing him in the chest and inflicting wounds from which he died later that night. >According to al-Naif’s friend who visited the crime scene, the attackers, some of them who were armed, entered the building by claiming they were police.
>Eight people, including five Turkish nationals and three Afghans, were detained as suspects by police in Bayrampasa, according to Demiroren News Agency. >The killing is the latest in what refugee rights activists say is an alarming trend of violence against refugees in the country.
>On Tuesday, an 18-year-old Syrian man was stabbed as he walked in a park in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
>On January 9, a large mob attacked a shopping mall used by Syrians in the working-class Istanbul neighbourhood of Esenyurt, an incident local news reports say was sparked after a Syrian man declined to give a cigarette to a Turkish man.
>Videos posted on social media showed hundreds of people marching through the neighbourhood chanting “This is Turkey, not Syria” and later attempting to attack Syrians inside another shopping mall, damaging the storefronts with stones and other objects that were thrown. >Police in the southwestern city of Izmir said at the end of December 2021 that they launched an investigation into the deaths of three Syrian workers in the city after a Turkish man admitted killing them.
They want to destroy all nations capable of building nations. Whether it’s the UK or even Turkey. What better way then flooding it with peasants with power complexes
