ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fatima Alzahra Shon thinks neighbors attacked her and her son in their Istanbul apartment building because she is Syrian. The 32-year-old refugee from Aleppo was confronted on Sept. 1 by a Turkish woman who asked her what she was doing in “our” country. Turkey hosts the world’s largest refugee population, and many experts say that has come at a cost. The government says there are about 300,000 Afghans in Turkey, some of whom hope to continue their journeys to reach Europe. Both Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, and the nationalist IYI Party have promised to work on creating conditions that would allow the Syrian refugees’ return.

Source: Egypt Independent September 25, 2021 14:37 UTC