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Raiding the house where young migrants from Syria live in İstanbul’s Bayrampaşa, a group of people in masks stabbed Nail Alnaif to death. Five people have been reportedly taken into custody.

Having reported on the ‘banana-eating videos’ of Syrian people in protest against the targeting remarks of a citizen in a street interview, journalist Majed Shamaa, who was sent to a removal center to be deported from Turkey, has been released.

Duaa Muhammed decided to move from Antep to İstanbul for her MA studies, but she had to return to Antep as she could not find a house for rent. “Sometimes, I don’t say where I am from so that they won’t treat me badly,” she says.

Heading for Italy, a boat carrying around 45 Syrian refugees capsized off the coast of Greece’s Crete Island. Running out of fuel, the boat reportedly capsized due to bad weather conditions. The search and rescue efforts are still ongoing.

The cousin of Hurih, who died in Antep, has said, “Those who are detained are not Syrians, but citizens of Turkey. My late cousin did not have a gun. Police came to our family to take their statements, we need a lawyer and legal support to follow the case.”

16-year-old Eymen Hammamı from Syria was reportedly stabbed to death in a fight between two groups in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Samsun.

After the Governorship of İstanbul announced that the Syrians living in the city without being registered there need to return to the cities where they are registered till August 20, Syrians have decided to hold a protest demonstration on July 27.