'You cannot let refugees in the cities and streets unless you educate them properly'I've been to a few areas filled with syrians in Turkey and it didnt look like they were assimilating at all, they don't even want to learn the language. Go to fatih district as an example. I remember walking around that place walking in and speaking Turkish to the shop owners and bar one out of maybe 20 places they were all disgusted to hear Turkish being spoken and were quick to tell me in English "no Turkish". Despite fleeing Turkey and being safe in Turkey they are more interested in learning English, then Turkish in Turkey.
One thing you learn quickly when you meet people from the mena regions, Turkish culture is much closer to southern European culture then it is MENA. Most of MENA culture is quite alien to Turkish culture if i'm being honest.
Also in Istanbul the Turkish people are very friendly and warm, they say hello, their polite, considerete etc. The syrians barge you out of the way, next to none of them smile at you or greet you, they make no efforts to help you.
The impression i also got despite non of the native Turks wanting to say bad things about it, they all realise how bad this is for the harmony of the nation.
I used to go the starbucks in the fatih distict shopping mall for a few mornings in a row and i would just watch the people and how they behave. One thing you notice was how the syrians would take up seats and order nothing, even putting their feet on chairs. They could see people with drinks looking for a place to sit and they couldnt care less to make room for them to sit down. Whenever they ordered i didnt hear one order in Turkish, they were either showing the order on their phone or speaking in broken english. Next to none of them were polite to the staff, none of them made an effort to clean their table up either. Sometimes they would sit various tables across from each other and would scream to each other in arabic holding a conversation annoying other people.
If your being honest, its an absolute disaster and a few decades from now its going to be another separatist problem that the west will instigate.
This is not a very hard Rule to follow.
Seems like, unfortunately Turkish authority and government couldn't manage to maintain the separation.