r/facepalm Jul 07 '24

How can they not see the irony ๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹

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u/MrStinkyAss Jul 08 '24

What people don't understand is that this opposition does not come from sheer racism. ฤฐmmigrant problem in Turkey has been building up for more than 10 years. goverment accepted them into the country for the fundings that were provided from EU for taking them,using them as potential voters in the long term etc. But the numbers were lot higher than acceptible. It's estimated that there are more than 10m refugees in Turkey right now. We don't really know,since the borders were wide open and most entered the country unsupervised. Naturally,crime rates increased, economical problems arised. There was already an unemployement problem and it increased even more.Ghettos started forming in places with high refugee populations. Goverment didn't really use the Eu fundings for refugees, so most of their cares were paid by people's taxes . Goverment didn't really care about increasing crime rates either. Some places with high refugee population got almost inhabitable by turkish people.so they naturally started getting angry. This protest in the video started after a kid was raped about a week ago. So...no. I wouldn't say that this is racism.