Adding Arabic Pages to Watsons’ Catalog Is On The Agenda

While the migrant and refugee crisis in Turkey continues to be discussed, the Arabic pages that Watsons put in its catalog today became the new focus of the reactions. A boycott call has been launched for Watsons on social media.

While the number of refugees in Turkey increasing day by day brings great debates, there have been many exemplary incidents that citizens have attributed to this problem in recent days. Finally, in the second hand advertisement sites, some residences were ‘not suitable for Turkish customers’. While expressions such as inclusion of the Arabic page in the new catalog it reacted.

Watsons, one of the largest cosmetics store chains serving in Turkey, included Arabic pages at the end of its catalog published for April. These newly discovered pages received a great reaction with the shares made on social media. Even the hashtag ‘#watsonsboykot’ was opened on Twitter.

The pages in question were removed after the backlash:

Watsons Turkey is in its online catalog after the reactions to the pages written in Arabic Removed relevant pages. The removal of the pages also sparked new backlash. Some of the reactions to Watsons Turkey were as follows:

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