The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has fanned resentment among some Turks towards the millions of Syrian refugees in the country who are being blamed anecdotally by some for looting amid the destruction and chaos
Turkey's combined official death toll with Syria from the earthquake now stands at more than 37,000 and is predicted to rise further as hopes fade of finding many more survivors.
"Syrians walk around with their empty backpacks and fill them up from shops. There was a lot off looting here," said Ahmet, a dentist sitting across from the rubble of what used to be his surgery."Quake survivors are welcome to stay in my Ankara home for a year, on condition that they are not Syrian," said one tweet, with a picture of a wooden villa. Other offers of aid or temporary housing have set the same condition.
"At first a lot of shelters didn't ask people if they were Turkish or foreigners. But the next day, when there was some hassle and some racist commentary, we thought maybe some problems might come up that both they and we can do without."
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