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.
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