Videos of Syrians blatantly eating bananas caused a clash in Turkey. Even the Turkish migration authorities were called into action and immediately ordered the deportation of seven Syrians. The fuss was triggered by a simple street survey.
For years, Turkey has taken in countless civil war refugees from neighbouring Syria. 3.5 million now live in the country. But the mood is changing, especially in the face of a severe economic crisis and the ongoing Corona pandemic. Now all Turks are fighting for economic survival. More and more are turning against the refugees from Syria. Recently, there was a scandal.
Turkey wants to expel seven Syrian citizens after they shared videos of themselves eating bananas on social media. The furore was preceded by a street survey on October 17, 2021, in which a Turk complained about the economic situation, saying Syrians in Turkey could afford more than locals. “I can’t eat bananas, they buy bananas by the kilo,” he said in the Youtube video. A short time later, videos appeared on social media showing young Syrians demonstratively eating bananas and captioning the recording with the quotations from the street survey.
Many Turks felt provoked by this, calling the clips a “mockery of the economic hardship of Turkish citizens”. Some extremist have even propagated that now is the time to “shoot and kill Syrians”.
Some comments were also directed against Erdogan’s government and its asylum policy. But the migration authority has now also reacted. It considers the videos provocative because Turks are mocked in them. The authority announced that the background of the videos would be fully clarified and action would be taken against all persons who had shared them.
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