“Turkish people in the area came and told us they didn’t want us here — that we were to blame for the earthquake and that we weren’t welcome to stay,” said Basel, a 31-year-old refugee. “They started breaking up the tent, shouting at us until we left.”
A Syrian family sits in the back of a truck at the Syrian-Turkish border following the region's devastating Feb. 6 earthquake.
In recent days, with people’s grief morphing to fury, Syrians have become the target of a misinformation campaign accusing them of looting destroyed homes and stealing aid or blaming them as the reason for the cataclysm hitting Turkey. “My employer gave us our salary without delay and even sent us heating supplies when we were in the shelter,” said Mustafa, a 31-year-old janitor here in Kilis, who also declined to give his last name.
The refugees themselves became a convenient scapegoat, Basdas said —"the classic scenario of not actually targeting authorities but those who are vulnerable because they’re easier targets.”
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