Syrian young man killed by Turkish citizen in south Turkey
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A Syrian young man was killed yesterday, in the city of Gaziantep, southern Turkey, after he was shot in the chest by a person who was said to be Turkish.
The Syrian young man Mahmoud Muhammad Shobak tried to intervene to break up a quarrel between a roommate and an armed Turkish youth who stormed their house in the city, and the quarrel escalated into shooting and the killing of Shobak, as social media posted.
On December 20, the media reported the burning incident of three Syrian youths, last month, in the Turkish city of Izmir, after it was circulated that a Turkish young man had poured gasoline into the room of the three Syrians.
The incident led to the death of Ahmad al-Bssh, 17, Ma’moun al-Nabhan, 23, and Ahmad al-Ali, 21 as a result of the outbreak of fire in their room.
The crime of burning the three Syrian youths in the Turkish state of Izmir was “excellently racist,”, Taha al-Ghazi, a human rights activist, told North Press on December 21.
Racist campaigns against Syrian refugees in Turkey have recently increased after a murder committed by a Syrian, in which a young Turkish man was killed in the Altin Dag neighborhood in the capital, Ankara, last August.
In its wake, Turkish officials called for the expulsion of the Syrians.