Life in limbo for Syrians Turkey no longer wants

For two years, Turkey has pursued a sharply harsher policy towards refugees, and Syrians above all. Neighbourhoods where they had lived for a decade suddenly became zones of surveillance; homes were raided, workplaces inspected, streets watched. Deportation became a daily possibility. Syrians now share maps of the red migration vans on social media like emergency alerts, hoping to spare someone a sudden return to the danger they once fled.This shift followed a fierce political campaign by parts of the Turkish opposition that blamed Syrians for inflation, rising rents and unemployment. The narrative took hold, and a quiet hostility seeped into daily life. Syrians felt that their right to remain had become conditional, contingent on political winds far beyond their control.Restrictions multi…