Turkish society and the security consequences of the presence of Syrian immigrants

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the controversial and important discussion of how Dealing with immigrants and refugees has once again attracted the attention of the political and media circles of Turkey.

A court in Turkey filed a lawsuit against one of the famous politicians of this country And he considered his words about Syrian refugees as an example of promoting violence and hatred, inciting citizens and spreading lies. This is the first time that a high-ranking prosecutor in Turkey, in this way, supports the refugees and attacks a nationalist. The leader of the Zafar party has announced that at his request, an investigation has been started on the positions and messages of Ozdagh and soon the leader of the Zafar party will be interrogated on charges of spreading hatred and spreading lies.

The Turkish media announced that it is unlikely that Ozdag will go to prison, and he himself gave an answer to the Prosecutor General, which includes the fear of imprisonment.

Ozdag wrote: “Now 13 million There are refugees and illegal immigrants in Turkey for whom we have spent tens of billions of dollars and are still spending. This wrong policy has increased inflation in Turkey and increased unemployment. Our borders are full of security holes, our youth are in the swamp of drugs. Many of our youth have been killed by refugees and immigrants. We will continue our political struggle to tell these truths and expel the 13 million refugees and fugitives from our country and return them to their homeland. You cannot intimidate me by imprisoning and interrogating me. This beautiful country belongs to us and we will continue our struggle”.

Ozdag is a politician who blames all the economic and security problems of Turkey on the refugees and his words are a kind of It has created widespread hatred in the party’s supporters towards all immigrants.

In the 2028 election, the decision of the winning president and his plan to deal with the refugees was a constant pillar of the speeches of all the party leaders. But in the meantime, the opponents talked more passionately about the refugees and Erdogan preferred not to say anything clear about this issue. The opponents believed that the wrong policy of the Erdogan government. It has turned Turkey into a caravanserai of millions of displaced people. This matter became so important that the leader of one of the Turkish political parties devoted his entire program and strategy to deal with the refugees and drew the attention of the country’s nationalists. This person was none other than Professor Omid Ozdagh, a professor of international relations and a prominent expert in security studies, who founded an extreme right-wing party called Hizb Zafar.

Long before his party leader established, as a prominent security expert with pan-Turkish nationalism, he had special respect and credibility with Dolat Baghçeli, the leader of the National Movement Party. But later he came out of this party along with Meral Akhsner and others.

Ozdagh was supposed to be the main strategist of the Good Party, but he also left the Good Party and for some time, fieldwork on the issue of refugees. did Such was his strange work. He used his mobile phone to enter the shops of goldsmiths and wealthy Syrian businessmen in Turkey and ask them: Do you have a residence certificate? The answer was yes and they showed the proof. Then he asks: Are you armed? Again, the answer was positive and the other party showed the weapon and its license. Then Ozdagh turns the phone towards him and says: Did you see, fellow citizens? A Syrian youth in our country is accumulating wealth, he has weapons and he has learned Turkish. She will soon give birth to several children and I am worried that there will be no place left for us in this country. He also made a deal with Kemal Klichdaroglu. He supported Erdoğan’s rival and made him promise that if he wins, he will hand over the head of the Met Intelligence Service to Özdag and the displaced people will be expelled. And they wanted Ozdagh, but it didn’t go ahead, and now that the water is out of the mill, the prosecutor wants to restrain Ozdagh. But the problem is that Özdagh’s thinking has supporters in Turkish society and there are not a few citizens who look at the issue of refugees with anger and hatred. Especially considering that Özdagh and his associates have raised the issue of the impact of cultural factors on the concept of population and have shown that the demographic equations of Turkey may change and demographic changes may occur in several provinces.

Professor Murad Doghan, a researcher at Ankara University, said: “By the end of 2022, 820,000 Syrian children have been born in Turkey.” This means that the number will soon exceed one million people. Pay attention: the birth of a million Syrian babies in our country is not an event that can be easily passed over. We are extremely worried about our country’s resources and our population equations will undergo a terrible transformation”.

Constant reference to the educational and medical costs of the displaced, transferring the blame for food and housing inflation and the unemployment problem. The presence of Syrian refugees in Turkey and a dangerous approach called “otherization” can lead Turkey to some serious conflicts and social tensions.

The issue of refugees and Ankara-Damascus relations

Erdogan had commissioned a special team in 2022 to investigate the process manage the normalization of Turkey’s relations with the Zionist regime and Arab countries including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Ibrahim Kalen, who at that time was the spokesman and head of the foreign policy advisors team. and national security was a presidential institution, he was in charge of coordinating this team, and Çavuşoğlu, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Hakan Fidan, head of the Met Intelligence Service, were other members of the said team.

Dozens of hidden and hidden meetings of this team in several countries finally gave results and Turkey’s relations with the UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime reached the desired outcome of Erdogan. But in the case of Syria, nothing special happened. Why?

Because the Syrian case had more complex political-social dimensions for Erdogan and the conclusion of this negotiation was supposed to be one of Erdogan’s most important propaganda tools to win the 2023 elections.

Erdogan wanted to reach a new result with Damascus without ending the occupation presence of the Turkish army in Syria, even without canceling the activities of the militia and political groups against Bashar al-Assad. He will reach and return several hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees to their country and get votes from the people of his own country. But the Syrian presidential team, with a realistic and intelligent look, read Erdogan’s hand and refused to make such a concession.

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Evidences showed that Erdoğan’s team did not have obvious good intentions to normalize Turkish-Syrian relations and were only looking for fleeting electoral benefits. Was. For this reason, since the day after the election, no one has bothered to normalize relations, and this issue is one of the most important challenges regarding the continued presence of Syrian refugees in Turkey. The continuation of the presence of refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers in Turkey is a multi-dimensional issue whose political, security, legal, economic and social aspects require deep and wide analysis.

In the current situation, in addition to the ruling party, the opponents of this party also often look at this issue through the lens of political and group interests, and the evidence shows that Turkey does not have a new policy or plan to solve this problem in the medium term.

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