Turkish interaction after stabbing and killing the Syrian youth, Faris Muhammad Al-Ali
Adnan Abdul Razzaq | Al-Araby Al-Jadeed website
Wali Hatay Rahmi Dogan announced, in a statement, the arrest of a group of young Turkish men who participated in the stabbing and killing of the Syrian youth, Faris Muhammad Al-Ali, in the Narlca district of Antakya, southern Turkey, and transferred them to the competent judicial authorities.
For his part, Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu made a phone call to the family of the victim, condoling and confirming the arrest of the killer and the arrest of two other young men who participated in the operation, stressing that the most severe penalties will be imposed on the criminals who committed this act.And media sources indicated that the Syrian young man, aged 18, was stabbed by these Turks after leaving a football field at ten in the evening yesterday, Saturday.
While media sources attributed the cause of the stabbing and killing to the fact that Al-Ali stumbled upon a Turkish woman during his work, which prompted her children to monitor and stab him. The last sources explained that the Turkish young man was stalking Al-Ali, along with other young men, and then they beat him and stabbed him in the side, which caused him to bleed, and he soon died.
The murder of the Syrian youth received an interaction in the Turkish media, especially after it was revealed that he was an orphan and had taken refuge with his mother and five of his brothers in Turkey nine years ago, knowing that he is the eldest.
Syrian activist Taha Al-Ghazi told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that “the growth of racist rhetoric is the real reason for the escalation of crimes of assault and killing of Syrians,” asking, “But what is the reason for the rise in the tone of hatred and racism in the Turkish street, especially in the recent period?”
Al-Ghazi continues: “Unfortunately, the Turkish street has come to realize that the Syrians have no support or defender to preserve their dignity and preserve their rights and lives.”
Estimated that “the murders of Syrians will increase in the coming period, after they bear the burden of the deteriorating living conditions, and the spread of demands for their deportation, which the opposition parties agree on.”
It should be noted that the border state of Hatay with Syria witnessed an increase in incitement against Syrians and an exaggeration in the numbers of refugees and births, which prompted the governor of Hatay Rahmi Dogan to respond. Last month, he indicated that the number of Syrian refugees living in Hatay is 370,260 Syrian refugees under temporary protection out of 1,670,712 residents (the total number in the state), noting that there are those who are exaggeratingly manipulating the numbers to distort the facts.
Dogan emphasized that Syrians make up only 18.14 percent of the total population.
In previous press statements, Dogan explained that the claim that 70 to 80 percent of the children born in the state are Syrians is completely wrong, and is a distortion and manipulation of numbers. He stated that the number of births in Hatay between June 2021 and June 2022 amounted to 32,782, including 22,779 Turkish children and about 10,000 Syrian children. Consequently, Syrian children constitute only a quarter of births in the state.
