Small Turkish City Successfully Absorbed Half A Million Migrants (Or Protected Persons, As They Are Officially Known)

[anotheoldgit]

Turkey seems to have accepted their mass influx of migrants, and should be praised for that, but would they have accepted these migrants so willingly if they had not been of the same culture and religion as themselves?

/// “So in general people here call them guests, not refugees. The culture is similar, so is the religion.” ///

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/19/gaziantep-turkish-city-successfully-absorbed-half-a-million-migrants-from-syria

[jno]

I was in Gaziantep a few years back, and immigrants were pouring in. Well done to the Turks for taking them in. But a lot of them - I don't have figures and I doubt they have either - are Kurds, whom the Turks don't like at all. None the less, they've been accepted.

[Zacs-Master]

Probably not.