[1/2] An election campaign billboard of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition alliance, with a slogan that reads "Syrians will go! ", is pictured, ahead of the May 28 presidential runoff vote, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 25, 2023. "Most Syrians now feel as if the course of their entire lives depends on the results of the elections," he lamented. Like other regional leaders, Erdogan is also mending fences with Assad, raising the possibility of a rapprochement that could worry many Syrians in Turkey. He recounted an incident when a friend was robbed but feared he would be assaulted if he went to the police to illustrate the precarious position many Syrians feel themselves to be in in Turkey.

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