For a few more votes for the presidency… “Syrians in Turkey could become citizens: Erdoğan”

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Syrians in Turkey could become citizens: Erdoğan

Millions of Syrians living in Turkey will have a chance to become Turkish citizens, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 2

But the reaction was mostly racist. Turkey’s new kind of racism brewing…: 

Turkish Twitter users criticize Syrian citizenship proposal as hashtag becomes TT

The hashtag #ÜlkemdeSuriyeliİstemiyorum (I don’t want Syrians in my country) hit the worldwide Twitter trending topic list on July 3, as Turkish social media users slammed President Erdoğan’s suggestion that millions of Syrians living in the country would have a chance to become Turkish citizens

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