Yemen issues condemnation of racist attack against Yemeni civilian in Turkey

Yemen issues condemnation of racist attack against Yemeni civilian in Turkey

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs sent a letter of protest to the Turkish government over the racist attack that a group of Turks carried out in Istanbul, against the Yemeni youth Firas al-Nahari and his brother Hisham.

“We sent a letter of protest to Ankara as a result of the unjustified harassment of Yemeni nationals residing on its territory that is not appropriate for the historical relations between the two countries and the two brotherly peoples,” Hussein Al-Ezzi tweeted on Tuesday.

“We affirmed Sana’a’s insistence on the need to hold the perpetrators of the assaults on the Yemeni citizen accountable and to impose the most severe deterrent penalties against them,” he added.

Hisham Al-Nahari, a 15-year-old Yemeni child, got into a fight with another Turkish child in the Crystal Shahir Complex in Istanbul.

A group of Turks chased the child and beat him severely, before his brother, Firas, intervened to save him.

He, too, was subjected to severe beatings, then the Turkish police arrived and arrested them, ignoring the Turkish aggressors, in light of the silence and disregard of the Yemeni embassy affiliated with the Saudi-backed government.