– They got into a meat queue at 5 degrees

The economic crisis that is experienced as a consequence of the economic policies implemented by the government is increasing day by day. In Erzurum, citizens form long queues in front of the Meat and Milk Institution (ESK) shop in minus 5 degrees of cold and heavy snow to buy cheap meat. The scene in front of the IHC brought to mind Mahzuni Şerif’s song ‘a fine snow falls on the poor’.

Long queues form in front of the ESK shops, where meat is sold cheaper than in the market. Citizens who were queuing in front of the ESK store in the central Erzurum Yakutiye District Gez, regardless of the cold weather and snowfall, said: “What are the deputies doing? May the money they take be mine. Look at the state of this Erzurum, which had six deputies. reacted.

‘500 meter queue’

Citizens waiting in line for meat said: “We will die of pain in the field this winter. They give a salary of 8 thousand lire. We are in the middle. We are experiencing carnage in a place that is a cattle and agricultural region. We’ve been here in a meat queue under the snow since 5 in the morning. This is the state of the nation. They made turkey this way. Look, there is a line of 500 meters, ”she said.

63 percent of Erzurum, where 45 percent of its population lives from agriculture and animal husbandry, consists of pasture. Described as Turkey’s ‘meat warehouse’ and known as the ‘Livestock Capital’, Erzurum has more than 11 percent of Turkey’s grassland with 16 million decares.