Turkey’s financial system hit as Syrians return house

For the reason that finish of the warfare in Syria final yr, many Syrians have left Turkey to return house. Of the three.6 million refugees residing within the nation, greater than half 1,000,000 are believed to have already gone again. These departures are weakening the Turkish financial system, which depends closely on low-cost labour, notably within the textile and agricultural sectors. Within the south-east, in Gaziantep, half of the garment workshops closed final yr as a consequence of a scarcity of staff. A report by Jenna Le Bras and Adrià Rocha Cutiller.