People in Cizre: People commit suicide due to poverty and despair

  • actual
  • 11:16 20 February 2020
  • |
img

ŞIRNAK- The citizens in Cizre, who evaluated the economic crisis, stated that they are longing for previous year with each new year and they asked: “People commit suicide due to poverty and despair. What will people do if there is no bread at home?"

Rising prices in all kind of products in Turkey, instability in exchange rates and the increasing number of incidents of suicide reveal the impact of the economic crisis. While citizens coming to the market in Cizre district of Şırnak are worried about the stiff prices, tradesmen complain that the products remain in their hands.
 
Abdullah Özmen (51), one of the shopkeepers, stated that the poor were unable to buy anything, saying, “While 1 kg of the tomato was 4 lira, now it is 8 lira. When the customer hears this, he runs away. He puts his hand in his pocket and sees that there is no penny." Expressing that the recovery of the economy is possible with the prevalence of peace and democracy, Özmen said, "We do not demand anything other than peace."
 
'WE LONG FOR THE PREVIOS YEAR WITH EACH NEW YEAR'
 
On of the shopkeepers in the bazaaar, Abdurrahman Kurtay (50) drew attention to the rising prices by saying that the prices of his products have doubled and said,  "There is a deep economic crisis. It gets deeper day by day. We are longing for the previous year with each new year. The price of diesel flew high. That is why the prices of the products coming out of the field becomes stiff. There is no money in the pockets of the poor, the rich do not care." Stating that one of the reasons for the crisis was the evacuation of the villages, Kurtay said, “All the villages were evacuated and the people there came to the cities. Livestock farming in villages has been terminated. As there is no production, there began the crisis. There is a huge unemployment right now. People now commit suicide due to poverty and despair. What will people do if there is no bread at home?" 

View More Articles

01/12/2020
12:24 HDP politicians detained in Diyarbakır
12:24 Governor's statement for child killed by soldiers: They were firing their gun into the air
12:23 TJA calls for solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike
12:23 Second group takes over the hunger strike
11:31 5 Journalists were arrested in Van in 40 days
09:59 Objection to the arrest of our reporter Karataş
09:35 Kurdish politicians detained in Şırnak
30/11/2020
15:53 TTB: Private hospitals should provide public service during pandemic
15:52 Our reporter Yalçın released
14:20 Request of arrest for our reporter Yalçın
11:39 1 year 6 months 22 days prison sentence for Journalist Öztekin
11:22 Youth discusses isolation: The key to democracy is in İmralı
10:43 The hypocrisy of the ECtHR: Execution was replaced with isolation
10:42 KNK Co-chair: People of Bashur do not want inner conflict
28/11/2020
13:21 Erdoğan speaks of 'judicial reform': 415 citizens detained
11:01 Police raid on the homes of IHD and MEBYA-DER executives
10:49 Kozluk Co-Mayor detained
10:43 Z.N, raped at the removal center, transferred to guest house
10:43 Lawyers detained in Bursa, released
10:42 'Prisoners from Rojava are being punished twice'
27/11/2020
15:01 Scores detained in multiple cities
13:44 Families submit application to visit İmralı
13:44 Night raid on HDP building in Van
13:43 Ehmed: An agreement to rebuild Shengal is needed
10:48 Our reporter Karataş put in a cell
10:19 Prosecutor investigated if the 24 civillians who were killed 5 years ago had ties with 'the organization'
10:19 Our reporter Hakan Yalçın detained
26/11/2020
17:28 Our reporter Karataş arrested
16:11 ECtHR’s scandalous verdict on HDP: HDP does not have victim status
14:12 Our reporter Karataş is accused of news interviews
14:11 Police raided HDK building while no one was there, seized digital materials
14:11 Leyla Öztürk was killed with a state issued gun
14:10 Seeing their clients in prison considered a crime
14:08 Attorneys of Öcalan submits new application to visit İmralı
12:44 Heavy deployment of troops continues in Shengal
12:34 Journalist Metina: They asked if I was a member of Kurdish Writers Association
12:33 Mother who lost her daughter in Shengal Massacre: We must stand against war
10:31 Scores detain in operation in İstanbul
10:17 Êzidî intellectuals: Peshmerga dressed as Iraqi soldiers besieged Shengal
09:40 Özgüneş: This will be the century of national unity and freedom for the Kurds
25/11/2020
17:27 Women raise both their words and struggle against violence
17:25 Alternating hunger strike against isolation begins in prisons indefinitely
13:36 Journalist Elî: There have been Turkmen groups among the soldiers sent to Shengal
13:36 Sexist November 25th poster from the trustee
13:35 November 25 message from arrested women politicians
09:41 Our detained reporter Karataş taken to Erzurum
24/11/2020
16:57 Restriction of legal council for our reporter Karataş
16:26 ECHR ruled for violation in Ahmet Şık case
14:07 Police attack workers marching to Ankara
11:48 Attorneys of Öcalan submits new application to visit İmralı