Many Syrian refugees in Turkey fear becoming victims of organ trafficking. I examine these fears through a study of both the rumors of organ trafficking which circulate in Syrian communities in Izmir, Turkey, and their first hand narratives of structural racism. Their own words describe the ways in which racism, the extraction of their labor, and possible bio-extraction are legitimately fearsome. However, organ trafficking is indeterminately real. I examine the possible truths of these rumors and inquire into their sociopolitical meanings. Stories of structural racism are abundant in Izmir. My 2017 data reflect the first hand narratives of Syrian women and men who have had negative and traumatic encounters with Turkish interlocutors in their daily lives. These include the abusive doctor who delivers beatings to Syrian mothers,  the Turkish elementary school teacher whose Syrian students remain illiterate, the threatening and racist landlords who cause housing scarcity, the bosses who refuse medical access to Syrian workers, the injustice of earning half the salary of Turkish workers and sometimes being denied payment, the neighborhood officials who keep Syrians from getting aid, and the dismissive bureaucrats of Turkish aid who deny assistance. What all of these represent, however, are corporeal experiences of violence and discrimination, and an awareness by Syrians of the larger structure of xenophobia against Syrians in Izmir. Veena Das (2007) has written that rumor is a reflection of chains of connection and translation, which can contextualize political and historical events. Using twelve months of interviews with Syrian families and individuals, I ground their experiences of being Other within the local social hierarchy of urban Izmir, Turkey. I consider how Syrians translate and make meaning from violence in their daily lives according to a shared political and historical timeframe from a subaltern perspective. I argue that an accumulation of events of violence on national and local scales gives legitimacy to the rumors with circulate. My analysis reveals a growing mistrust of the Turkish State amongst Syrians, a general state of vulnerability, and the imminent danger of violence in everyday life. These Syrian anxieties persist despite free education, health care, the support of the ruling government, and access to citizenship for educated professional Syrians.