00:00Syrian protesters used rocks to smash windows at this Turkish outpost.
00:05A few dozen managed to get into the military base located west of Aleppo.
00:10They were among hundreds of Syrians who protested in areas of the country under Turkish control,
00:16angered by attacks on Syrians in Turkey in recent days.
00:20There is racism in Turkey against displaced Syrians in the refugee camps, including deportation,
00:29beatings, killings.
00:31This cannot happen in Turkey, as it's an ally of the Syrians in areas liberated from the
00:36Assad regime.
00:40Footage posted on social media shows crowds marching through several Turkish cities, attacking
00:45Syrians they encounter.
00:47This man narrowly escaped being lynched.
00:51In the city of Kayseri in central Turkey, this Syrian filmed the burned-out carcass
00:55of his car.
00:57Mobs also set fire to Syrian-owned businesses.
01:00The violence was in response to a case in which a Syrian was accused of harassing a
01:05child.
01:06More than three million Syrians have been living in Turkey since the civil war broke
01:09out in 2011.
01:11Their presence in the country is highly politicised.
01:14President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during his re-election campaign last year, promised to
01:18prepare a path for more than one million to return voluntarily to Syria.
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