Syrian Refugees Toil on Turkey’s Hazelnut Farms With Little to Show for It

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    Like thousands of other Syrian refugees, Shakar Rudani worked last summer in Turkey’s Black Sea region, home to the largest concentration of hazelnut farms in the world. He arrived in August, expecting that he and his six sons, ages 18 to 24, would earn the equivalent of a few thousand dollars. He left in late September with little more than a firm resolution: to never return again.
    The work was arduous and risky. Because the terrain is filled with steep inclines, his sons spent much of their time attached by ropes to rocks, a precaution against a potentially fatal fall. Worse, the pay was $10 a day, half the rate promised by the middleman who had pitched him the job.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/business/syrian-refugees-turkey-hazelnut-farms.html

    Modern Arab slaves .. ruled by Muslims.
     
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    To what, the ruins and remnants of what was Syria???
     
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    Thats nuts!
     
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    Elsewhere he would have worked for peanuts...
     
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    Someone has to start rebuilding, so who better than the citizens?
     

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