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The Grand Turk
Turkey Holds Dozens More after Attacks on Syrian Shops
2021-08-14
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
's chief prospector on Friday announced the arrest of 72 more people implicated in attacks on the shops of Syrian migrants colonists in the capital Ankara.

The new detentions bring the total number of people detained since Wednesday night's violence to 148.

The unrest broke out in response to a fight between locals and migrants colonists in which a Ottoman Turkish national was stabbed to death.

The Anadolu state news agency said two "foreign nationals" have been arrested and charged with homicide.

Images on social media showed dozens of shouting men breaking through police cordons and then attacking cars and shops believed to be owned by Syrian families.

They smashed windows with stones and crowbars and tore down the metal grill of one store before breaking in and ransacking its shelves.

Images obtained by AFP showed police firing tear gas to disperse the crowds as the violence raged late into the night.

The chief prosecutor's office in Ankara has been detaining people who were either suspected of being involved in the violence or of disseminating incendiary social media posts before and during the attacks.

The unrest in Ankara comes with polls showing anti-migrant sentiment on the increase in Turkey.

Turkey has become home to 3.6 million Syrians under a deal struck with the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
in 2016 to help avert the continent's migrant crisis.

The sides are currently working on updating the terms.

Turkey's main opposition party last month vowed to send Syrians "back home" if it comes to power in a general election scheduled for 2023.

Analysts link some of the resentment to economic instability that accelerated in Turkey with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.
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