Reporting by Mustafa mohamed; Transaltion by Rana Abdul
(Eqtsad)- Khaled al-Abed, 40-year-old, works in washing dishes in one of the Syrian restaurants in Gaziantep except that the restaurant owner’s relative’s arrival lost him the job he was supporting his family with, after that relative took his place in the restaurant.
For the tenth day in a row, al-Abed roams the streets and alleyways searching for a work opportunity, but all his attempts to find work have failed because employers prefer to hire younger workers.
Al-Abed told Eqtsad what happened to him, “everyone does not want to hire older laborers, and that is to escape from paying an appropriate monthly salary. They prefer to recruit children and pay small wages.” He added, “if a family does not have a small one then who will support it?”
Al-Abed indicated that his situation is similar to many Syrian laborers in the city, highlighting that a large part of Turkish employers refuses to employ older laborers based on the principle of respect, clarifying it saying, “Turks refuse for workmen to be older than the master, and for this reason they do not except the idea that the workmen be older in age.”
Like al-Abed, Mohammad Kassem al-Amirayin, 45-year-old, struggled to find a job opportunity to provide for his family. He added to Eqtsad, “the Turkish employer is still not convinced of my work.”
Kassem works as a fruit and vegetable salesperson in popular markets (Pazar) on a stall owned by a Turkish person. He is paid a daily wage of approximately 40 Turkish Lira. Kassem describes his wage as excellent given the salaries that Syrians are earning in Gaziantep, and continues, “it is true my work is very tiring, and requires standing up for long time, but the return is appropriate.”
He continues, “the problem is here in Gaziantep city that the job opportunities are limited though the city attracts a large number of Syrians wanting to work, and this in turn presents a large opportunity for Turkish and Syrian employers equally for them to choose.”
The Democratic Republic center considered in a previously issued study that Gaziantep city witnesses the highest rates of Syrian child laborers in the absence of Turkish and international law to limit the phenomenon.
(Eqtsad)- Khaled al-Abed, 40-year-old, works in washing dishes in one of the Syrian restaurants in Gaziantep except that the restaurant owner’s relative’s arrival lost him the job he was supporting his family with, after that relative took his place in the restaurant.
For the tenth day in a row, al-Abed roams the streets and alleyways searching for a work opportunity, but all his attempts to find work have failed because employers prefer to hire younger workers.
Al-Abed told Eqtsad what happened to him, “everyone does not want to hire older laborers, and that is to escape from paying an appropriate monthly salary. They prefer to recruit children and pay small wages.” He added, “if a family does not have a small one then who will support it?”
Al-Abed indicated that his situation is similar to many Syrian laborers in the city, highlighting that a large part of Turkish employers refuses to employ older laborers based on the principle of respect, clarifying it saying, “Turks refuse for workmen to be older than the master, and for this reason they do not except the idea that the workmen be older in age.”
Like al-Abed, Mohammad Kassem al-Amirayin, 45-year-old, struggled to find a job opportunity to provide for his family. He added to Eqtsad, “the Turkish employer is still not convinced of my work.”
Kassem works as a fruit and vegetable salesperson in popular markets (Pazar) on a stall owned by a Turkish person. He is paid a daily wage of approximately 40 Turkish Lira. Kassem describes his wage as excellent given the salaries that Syrians are earning in Gaziantep, and continues, “it is true my work is very tiring, and requires standing up for long time, but the return is appropriate.”
He continues, “the problem is here in Gaziantep city that the job opportunities are limited though the city attracts a large number of Syrians wanting to work, and this in turn presents a large opportunity for Turkish and Syrian employers equally for them to choose.”
The Democratic Republic center considered in a previously issued study that Gaziantep city witnesses the highest rates of Syrian child laborers in the absence of Turkish and international law to limit the phenomenon.
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