Syrian refugees under attack in Turkey
In Turkey's southeast city of Gaziantep, the murder of a Turkish landlord by his Syrian tenant has sparked protests and anti-Syrian violence, and the city struggles to restore calm.
![Syrian refugee men sit at a refugee camp in Nizip in Gaziantep province, near the Turkish-Syrian border Syrian refugee men sit at a refugee camp in Nizip in Gaziantep province, near the Turkish-Syrian border March 17, 2014. Aleppo continues to bear the brunt of the civil war, in which about 140,000 people have died. Almost two years after rebels grabbed half of the city, they are now on the defensive, with government forces advancing on three sides. Turkey began building its refugee camps near the border in mid-2011, little knowing the war would last so long and bring such vast numbers of people, many of them](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2014/08/RTR3IN3S-1.jpg/RTR3IN3S-1.jpg?h=c2c5b897&itok=zqKTLxWL)
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