This time the student was affected by the merchandise: the price increase exceeded 100 percent.

After their college preferences were announced, students began looking for dorms and houses, and after the housing crisis, the furniture crisis hit them.

After the increase in private residence fees exceeds 100 percent, students who plan to rent a shared house can find a house, but this time they have difficulty purchasing their household goods.

Although students are turning to secondhand items because they are more affordable, the cost of home furnishings has increased more than 100 percent compared to last year. While it costs an average student up to 35,000 lira to repair her house in Istanbul, this price reaches 20,000 lira in Ankara.

THE COST OF BUILDING A HOUSE IN ISTANBUL EXCEEDED 30 THOUSAND

Hüseyin Akyüz, a merchant who has been selling second-hand items in Üsküdar, Istanbul for years; He said that the cost of furnishing houses for students this year has increased by more than 100 percent, and that for a house that last year could be furnished for 15 thousand lira, this year it has increased to at least 30-35 thousand lira . .

Akyüz said: “Although we made a discount of 3 to 5 thousand on normal prices, prices have increased to this level. Only an average refrigerator sells for 7,000 lira and a washing machine for 5,000 lira. The dishwasher costs 5,000 liras. These appliances alone are in the range of 17 to 20 thousand. “When other items are included, even if the student buys a below-average item, the cost will be at least 30 thousand lira,” he said.

Akyüz stated that in the past they used to give students small items such as pots, pans and curtains, and now even the worst curtains are sold for 500 lira.

Furthermore, Akyüz said that merchants who sell second-hand items have difficulty finding items. Akyüz said: “Before, many products reached the observers, but this situation has changed for economic reasons.”

THE COST OF TRANSPORTATION AFFECTED THE STUDENT IN ANKARA

Another trader who runs a second-hand goods store in Ankara Çankaya stated that unlike Istanbul, there is no difficulty in finding second-hand goods in Ankara, but there are transportation problems.

Second-hand goods dealers claimed that shipping and transportation costs increased rather than the prices of goods, and this is reflected in prices, and that transportation costs increased by 400 percent in one year, and even The transportation cost of an average washing machine has increased. It reached 1000 lire.

The merchant stated that the increase in shop rents and transport prices is reflected in the costs of students, and that last year a student living in Ankara could furnish his house for an average of 5,000 to 6,000 lira , but this year the cost of furnishing a house increased by 300 percent to 20 thousand lira. He explained that the main reason for this increase is the increase in store rents and the increase in transportation fees.