Syrian refugees in Turkey riot, attack Turkish citizens and fly their own flag at the camp.
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[QUOTE]http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syrians-revolt-fly-own-flag-at-refugee-camp-in-turkey-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=26083&NewsCatID=359
Syrian refugees started a riot in a Gaziantep refugee camp today, taking down the Turkish flag and replacing it with their own, Doğan news agency reported.
Syrian refugees at the site began protesting about the 1,500 Turkmen refugees that had been added to the camp, precipitating a verbal argument with security officials. The row soon escalated into a riot as hundreds of Syrians took Turkish police officers hostage and seized their guns. The Turkish flag at the entrance was taken down and refugees replaced it with their own.
Syrian refugees also heavily damaged the central building nearby while destroying computers and crime-scene vehicles on the scene. Local authorities immediately asked for back up.
Special forces soon arrived and entered the camp, dispersing the rioters. Turkish citizens also tried to intervene but were prevented from doing so by security officials.
Turkish citizens quickly took down the Syrian opposition flag, replacing it with the original Turkish one.[/QUOTE]
So, the Turkish government lets them stay in their refugee camps and help them up. They go buttmad when Turkmen refugees are also brought to the camp by the Turkish government, and they riot.
Apparently terrorists are always terrorists no matter where. They should deport them back to Syria.
Despicable.
Send those fuckers back to Syria
[QUOTE=Absynth;36886727]So, the Turkish government lets them stay in their refugee camps and help them up. They go buttmad when Turkmen refugees are also brought to the camp by the Turkish government, and they riot.
Apparently terrorists are always terrorists no matter where. They should deport them back to Syria.[/QUOTE]
Now rioting is an act of terrorism. Great conclusions drawn
I get the feeling that this was the last straw for Turkey.
[QUOTE=Absynth;36886727]So, the Turkish government lets them stay in their refugee camps and help them up. They go buttmad when Turkmen refugees are also brought to the camp by the Turkish government, and they riot.
Apparently terrorists are always terrorists no matter where. They should deport them back to Syria.[/QUOTE]
Uh, no. Yes these guys are doing some despicable stuff but it's hardly an act of terrorism.
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;36886951]I get the feeling that this was the last straw for Turkey.[/QUOTE]
Not exactly, they broke the last straw into a bunch of little pieces and are picking them up one at a time.
What ungrateful assholes. I mean, THEY were given refugee by Turkey, they KNOW how it feels to be out alone with no help. Shouldn't they be happy to see the Turkmen refugees, as they know what torment and hell they've been through? Be kind and hospitable, rather than assholes who start a riot. It is despicable. They're treating people like shit who are in the same position as themselves. It is beyond belief and beyond logic.
See, this is why I will never fucking understand the Middle East or those living there. Shit like this feels like it happens all the time, and that no matter what goes right or wrong, they're still constantly killing each other.
It's a gigantic clusterfuck and if I had my way we wouldn't even bother with the region as a whole. It's a goddamn mess, it always has been, and if things continue this way, it always will be.
ewitwins, get out of this thread with your shitty generalizations man. The entirety of the Middle East isn't some backwards, medieval place. You have a good few people who [I]are[/I] fucking barbaric, but a majority of us are just normal damn people.
This just in; anything that goes wrong is [b]terrorism![/b]
[QUOTE=loopoo;36887564]ewitwins, get out of this thread with your shitty generalizations man. The entirety of the Middle East isn't some backwards, medieval place. You have a good few people who [I]are[/I] fucking barbaric, but a majority of us are just normal damn people.[/QUOTE]
I get that, really, but I'm talking in terms of military and governmental relationships, and the way the media tends to portray the Middle East and Eastern/Northern Africa in general. I worded my statement incorrectly, and for that I apologize. What I should have said is that external interference, whether it be the United States, her allies, or whatever, usually just makes things worse because we obviously don't understand the cultural, tribal and religious undertones of what happens there..
Better?
This should be a telltale sign that everything's gone to shit. We need intervention.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36887641]I get that, really, but I'm talking in terms of military and governmental relationships, and the way the media tends to portray the Middle East and Eastern/Northern Africa in general. I worded my statement incorrectly, and for that I apologize. What I should have said is that external interference, whether it be the United States, her allies, or whatever, usually just makes things worse because we obviously don't understand the cultural, tribal and religious undertones of what happens there..
Better?[/QUOTE]
If you're going to blame anyone for many (not all) of the Middle East's current problems, lay it on the French and British when they had their way with the region after WWI.
send them back, block off the border, easy solution for Turkey?
[QUOTE=PassTheBong;36887653]This should be a telltale sign that everything's gone to shit. We need intervention.[/QUOTE]
lol
Talk about biting the hand that feeds.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;36887787]Talk about biting the hand that feeds.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, someone definitely will get roasted over this.
[QUOTE=loopoo;36887564]ewitwins, get out of this thread with your shitty generalizations man. The entirety of the Middle East isn't some backwards, [b]medieval[/b] place. You have a good few people who [I]are[/I] fucking barbaric, but a majority of us are just normal damn people.[/QUOTE]
Actually the Medieval era was one of quite a lot of innovation and development.
won't be too long until america gets a taste of situations like these. mexico is already a literal warzone, soon we'll have to treat the flood of people fleeing the violence as the refugees they really are.
From this perspective they're like toddlers throwing a tantrum when that kid they don't like is put in the playpen with them. Completely childish.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36887641]I get that, really, but I'm talking in terms of military and governmental relationships, and the way the media tends to portray the Middle East and Eastern/Northern Africa in general. I worded my statement incorrectly, and for that I apologize. What I should have said is that external interference, whether it be the United States, her allies, or whatever, usually just makes things worse because we obviously don't understand the cultural, tribal and religious undertones of what happens there..
Better?[/QUOTE]
Brilliant reply, sorry if I came across as a prick, didn't mean to. Just figured you were another one of those people that automatically assume every Middle-Eastern country is shit and all it's peoples are animals.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;36887843]Actually the Medieval era was one of quite a lot of innovation and development.[/QUOTE]
Wasn't Islam ahead of Christian Europe for a good few hundred years?
yeah and china had a giant ocean crossing fleet that could have conquered the entire western hemisphere by 1600
but they threw it away
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;36887843]Actually the Medieval era was one of quite a lot of innovation and development.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't exactly the Renaissance though, was it? The Medieval era did have it's perks, but a majority of the age was spent with problems due to superstition, religion and all that malarkey. But you make a fair point.
The French and the British sort of...tore apart the Ottoman Empire, didn't they? Out of their own self-interest?
that was after WW1. islamic fundamentalism had long since shut down the middle east's social advancement before then
it was only after conscious westernization at the hands of Mustafa Ataturk that modern Turkey emerged as a first (or second) world nation
As bad as this is...
[QUOTE=Absynth;36886727]Apparently terrorists are always terrorists no matter where.[/QUOTE]
Was this comment necessary?
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36888510]The French and the British sort of...tore apart the Ottoman Empire, didn't they? Out of their own self-interest?[/QUOTE]
Yeah they did. The French took Syria and Lebanon, the British took Palestine and Transjordan. They did the exact same to the German Empire's territories in Africa and the Far East, splitting them up between one another and also Belgium and Japan. Some of Britain's dominion states (South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand) also received former German territories.
Pretty much all actions they took after the Great War, from the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire to the Treaty of Versailles, were orchestrated to suit their own personal interests.
[QUOTE=SwayzeTrain;36887960]won't be too long until america gets a taste of situations like these. mexico is already a literal warzone, soon we'll have to treat the flood of people fleeing the violence as the refugees they really are.[/QUOTE]
Stuff like this has happened. The movie Scarface, with Al Pacino, was set during the time of Cuban refugees rioting.
It's no surprise that when people are forced to leave their lives and homes behind and live in camps that they will be on edge. It's not the fault of the country hosting them, in this case Turkey, but places like that become a powder keg.
This is why no country likes to be in the position of hosting refugees, it's a huge pain in the ass and things are bound to get violent at some point.
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