Reports | 25 05 2020
Tailor Abu Muhammad refused to travel to work in Turkey, for fear of potential ill-treatment at the hands of Turkish employers; despite the decline of his trade in the Aleppo countryside, and his poor living conditions resulting from the events in the country.
Difficulties were not exclusive to tailors in the most famous of all Syrian governorates in the clothing industry, and which witnessed an annual Cotton Festival. Sewing workshops' owners lost a great deal too, due to the high costs of electricity generators, the rising costs of fabric, the increase in labor expenses; in addition to the lack of demand for their goods, and the difficulty in marketing their production.
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