Upcoming Elections in Turkey: The end of the Syrian Opposition?
An estimated 4 million Syrians live in Turkey and their relationship to
their adopted home deepened over the past decade despite an increasingly
hostile climate. When polled, at least 80% of Turks say they want
Syrians to return. This sentiment has found an increasing home across
the political spectrum in Turkey, amid a rise in openly anti-immigrant
xenophobic parties and where a broad coalition trying to unseat the
Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has attacked him from the right
on immigration