Protests and arrests as anti-Syrian riots rock Turkey

Turkey’s government is urging for calm after violence against Syrian refugees broke out in the central Melikgazi region and spread to other areas. Riots erupted after Turkish authorities arrested a Syrian man for allegedly sexually abusing a seven-year-old Syrian girl in the central city of Kayseri. Turkish residents, infuriated by online reports of the crime, flipped over cars in Kayseri and set Syrian-run shops alight on Sunday night, demanding that Syrians be kicked out of the country. The violence spread to the southern province of Hatay, where protesters set a Syrian grocery store ablaze. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the violence, which he blamed opposition parties for stoking. Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu reports from Istanbul. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Turkey #Kayseri #Hatay #SyrianRefugees #SyrianHate #SyrianRefugeesInTurkey #Xenophobia #RecepTayyipErdogan