Page 92 - A Helping Hand for Refugees

However, some troubling voices have recently begun being heard
regarding our Syrian brothers and guests. Some people who think of
our relations with these brothers solely in terms of politics or the
national economy, hiding behind such concepts as "conjunctures, geopol-
itics and realpolitik", are issuing disturbing statements about their being
sent back to their own country. In truth, such statements are totally
incompatible with the Turkish people's traditional sense of hospitality,

good conscience and compassion.

On the basis of these alarming reactions that seem to be emanating
from a small, ruthless and selfish community, those who say that "The
doors to refugees must be closed and the refugees must be sent back home,"
because they regard the refugees in the country as a burden, or because

What would be the re-
action of those peo-
ple, who do not wel-
come refugees to
their country now, if
they were in the same
boat?

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