The hostility in Turkey to the masses of Syrian refugees flooding the country since the civil war that broke out in 2011 is growing.
Late Monday night, masked men murdered a Syrian young man in the Biram Basha area of Istanbul.
The assassination came 24 hours after dozens of Turks attacked a Syrian market in the Asniurat area of the city.
A Syrian activist named Taha Ghazi said in an interview with Al-Arabi Al-Jadid newspaper that a group of masked young Turks entered the Syrian refugee co-operative housing at 2:00 at night, vandalized security cameras, and then stabbed to death the The young Naif Muhammad Naif is 19 years old in the chest, who is still asleep.
The young man was taken to the government hospital, where doctors were forced to determine his death in light of the severity of the wound and the delay of the ambulance.
The young man's friends said he had no conflicts with residents of the neighborhood and estimated that the cause of the crime was related to incitement of parties in the Turkish opposition against the Syrians, and blaming them for the difficult economic situation of the country.
Syrians living in the area told al-Arabi al-Jadid that local police have opened an investigation, and that the murdered man is a refugee from Idlib, and his body is expected to be buried there.
More than 5.5 million refugees currently live in Turkey, including 3.7 million Syrian refugees, which is a burden on the economy.
Reuters reported today a 36% jump in inflation, a 19-year high.
The government has introduced a fiscal policy that will ease the volatility of the currency, but the Turkish lira is still 46 percent weaker than last year.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for his part, still refuses to change the course of the crash.
This is despite growing public dissatisfaction.
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