Interrogation of a Syrian shop owner who has Turkish citizenship by the head of the Zaffar Party

The head of the Turkish Zefar Party, Umit Ozda, while touring the city of Izmir, entered a goldsmithing shop after he noticed that there were writings in the Arabic language on the front of the shop. Umit Ozdae asked many questions to the owner of the shop, who holds Syrian citizenship. Note that Umit Ozday is a Turkish politician and current Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He was deputy leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) from November 2015 to February 2016. on 15 November 2016 joined the İYİ Party. In April 2019, he resigned from party’s executive board but announced that he will continue to be in the party and continue his party-related activities. On 16 November 2020, Özdağ was also dismissed from the İYİ Party. He founded the Zafar party on August 26, 2021 and was elected the first chairman. When Ozday entered the shop, he asked the shop owner to show him his ID card and tax proofs, after the shop owner told him that he also holds Turkish citizenship, and he has been working in the same craft since he was in Syria. Ozday commented, “He also has a license to carry weapons,” and asked the shop owner why you don’t go back to Syria!. All this in a recorded video that was posted on social media. The head of the Zafar party denounced this behavior, describing what is happening as a threat to democracy, especially since the owner of the shop had come to Turkey seven years ago and does not speak Turkish very well. Ozdae added, “We have 900,000 others like him who have obtained citizenship as well.”