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Solid Waste Collectors of Antalya Demand Recycling Center 15/09/2011
Representatives of foundations representing citizens mostly with Gypsy origin who subsist on paper and scrap collecting visited mayor of Kepez district of Antalya city (in Mediterranean Region of Turkey) Hakan Tütüncü in his office. Representatives of the foundations ask support of Hakan Tütüncü to build a recycling center to store and to sell solid waste.
President of Muratpaşa Roma Association Hakan Gezer, President of Antalya Modern Roma Social Solidarity, Cooperation and Cultere Association Ferhat Uçakdağ, President of Aydın Roma Federation Doğan Arkın visited mayor of Kepez district Hakan Tütüncü and explain him that citizens subsisting on scrap and paper collecting need a recycling center for storing and selling procedures of papers and scraps. Mayor Tütüncü said that they have no empty land for the building of recycling center and he will ask public foundations to find a suitable area for the recycling center in Antalya.
Paper and scrap collecting is one of the most common subsisting ways among citizens from various Gypsy groups. Roma in Thracia, Marmara and Aegean regions; Abdals in Central and Eastern Anatolia; Doms in Southeastern side of Turkey mostly subsist on paper and scrap collection under hard circumstances.
Source: CHA
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