The some 3.5 million Syrians who live in Turkey are familiar with discrimination. They are easy scapegoats for the country’s economic downturn. Now, earthquake survivors say it’s been getting worse, as countless numbers of people left homeless are competing for scarce resources, and misinformation spreads on social media. Fariba Nawa reports from Istanbul.
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