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Baiting on Syrians in Ankara

After the failed coup attempt by supporters of President Erdogan sacked in Ankara, Syrian shops. The refugees in the city of fear, hatred and violence, and are stunned. From Ankara Diego Cupolo.

In the case of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and referred to as the “cleansing” after the failed coup attempt in Turkey, more than 50,000 people are arrested, detained, and dismissed. Critical of the government Turks are not the only ones who need to fear. The most faithful followers of Erdogan’s need to Worry about: Syrian refugees.

When it became clear that the government party, the AKP remains in Power, stormed in with a violent crowd in Ankara’s Syrian quarter, and was struck by the window, destroyed shop Windows and looting, almost without exception, all of Syrians-run shops along the main shopping street of the district.

“You were so upset that we couldn’t stop them,” says Faiz Abed-Al-Kreem from Syria. In his fruit – and-vegetables-have been taken to Invite all the window. “They tried to provoke us so that we can go out on the street and fight with them. But we stayed home and prayed that the night is over,” he says of the DW.

The triumph of emotions and violence orgies

Shortly after midnight on Sunday at dawn, the and trouble came to the ACP-trailer according to Önder, a neighborhood in Ankara, in which many Syrian refugees live, and is now regarded as a Slum. After the failed coup-attempt by Erdogan had called on his supporters to protest against the Coup.

Some of them were inspired by their Triumph carried away and turned into a violent Mob. Around 200 people, the Selcuk road went down and attacked Syrian shops. At least 30 shops were severely damaged before the police broke up finally, the crowd of people.

Wave of violence: In the morning after the coup, the stores were looted Syrian refugees in Ankara

In Turkey, around 2.5 million Syrians, Erdogan largely grateful for the life that he granted them refuge after the Syrian civil war in Turkey. But after the riots in Önder the approximately 40,000 residents in this district are serious Worried about their future in Turkey.

First friends, now enemies?

“The shops of the Turkish owners have been spared,” says Faiz Abed Al-Kareem, while he stands in the rubble of his shop. “The Riots are pulled by a Syrian business to the next and have everything taken away.”

“I’m scared,” says Al-Kareem. “It may be that people bother now Turks, the stores rent out to us Syrians. The shop owners then do business with us. You could take away the shutters. It is currently really dangerous for us.”

Many Syrians did not report the damage to the police, but they repaired it themselves – out of fear of their own safety. Many operate their businesses on a semi-legal Basis and fear problems with the Turkish neighbours, if the events after the coup were to again attention.

The police look the other way

The Syrian Sadeq Mohammad has a Shop for used appliances at the Selcuk road and told that washing cabinets, machines, and cooling in his shop were destroyed. He estimates the damage at around $ 2,000 (approx. 1813 Euro). “You came to steal and to destroy, and the police let you easily grant,” says Mohammad of the DW. “I don’t know why you have done it.”

The grid of Sadeq Mohammad’s torn away were Download. Mohammad estimates the damage at about 1800 euros.

Mohammad reported that he had experienced from the Turks in his district have never before hostilities and is shocked by their behavior change. Other Syrian shop owner in the Selcuk road and tell the story of their Turkish friends who were always welcome – to the weekend of the coup attempt.

However, not all will agree to: Imad Haddad, from Aleppo, has lived for three years in Ankara, told that he was bullied during his time in Turkey again and again. “First of all, Assad has caused us problems in Syria, now we are here, and now it is the Turks hard,” says Haddad of the DW. “Don’t treat us well. You want to show us that this is their country and not ours.”

Threats for naked women

In Istanbul, there has been no attacks in Ankara. Instead, AKP supporters in Taksim to have gathered there space in the centre and naked women with snide remarks, insults. Non-get, you should have threatened: “your time will come.”

Video recording from the district of Kadikoy also show how a Mob attacks on the streets drinking people. Kadikoy Istanbul secular area, especially in the case of young Turks and foreigners popular. Because of such Attacks, many of the Bars remained closed at the weekend, in order to prevent further confrontations.

So Imad Haddads business looked after the looting

Since the failed coup attempt Friday night, the streets in Ankara and Istanbul from AKP are occupied trailers. They gather to the “democracy rallies” called for by Erdogan, waving Turkish flags and shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is great”). The focus of these rallies is on the ACP as well as the defense of a conservative Islam.

“I don’t know what comes next,” says Ammar Assaf, a 20-year-old chemistry student from Aleppo who lives in Ankara’s poor district Önder. He could no longer trust the Turks in his district.

Next door friends to repair it the broken shop window of a Syrian bakery, and a grocery store. “The government has told us, we would live in freedom,” says Assaf. “Our whole street was destroyed. The freedom is?”