Maan Al-Khader-Gaziantep
After adjusting for the cold weather in the winter of the city he moved to several years ago, Anas passes through his motorized bicycle and behind him the bags of plastic bags to show them at the Syrian shops, which have become widespread in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey.
Anas says that he returned to what he was doing in Syria, the marketing of various materials as a marketing graduate from the Institute of Business Administration in the city of Daraa, south of Syria, where he was born.
One of Anas's customers serves Syrian cuisine and has Syrian cooks.
We asked Yasser as he stood behind the "shawar" shawarma: How much do you go here, how do you find work? "It is difficult to live in Turkey and work 12 hours."
| Yasser: Life is tough in Gaziantep (Al Jazeera) |
Different working conditions
Anas and Yasir share one of the biggest disadvantages of their experience working in Turkey, given the long hours of work versus the poor returns.
But others have made individual initiatives that may improve their working conditions and daily income, including Abu Ali, who meets daily with his colleagues in the sewing profession after they set up a group on the Watsab program for the Syrian tailors, through which they exchange the available job opportunities or what some Syrian factories and workshops require. .
Abu Ali says the language barrier is the main obstacle to their work in Gaziantep, as well as the difficulty of finding Turkish social insurance services because of the high costs.
| Anas carries plastic bag packages on his bicycle to show them at the Syrian shops in Gaziantep (Al Jazeera) |
Turkish efforts
More than 700 small projects throughout Turkey have been provided with assistance to their owners to license their businesses by paying all their costs.
The executive director of the Syrian economic center, Tammam al-Baroudi, says they started this project to support Syrian entrepreneurs, where many consider the amounts that make their work legally licensed and can not afford it.
He adds that the aim of the project is to encourage small entrepreneurs to make their businesses legal to guarantee their rights.
In the workshops of computer training centers and Turkish language courses, teachers and trainees work as a cell in the vocational training institute established by Gaziantep Chamber of Industry.
The institute was established eight years ago with the arrival of Syrians to Turkey after the conflict began in the country.
The director-general of the Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce, Krishat Jungo, said the institute had opened its doors to Syrians interested in learning a profession and qualifying them to join the Turkish labor market.
Kershat added that the institute trains the Syrians on the language and informs them of their legal and health rights and working conditions in the country, and then connects them to companies according to the need of the market in Gaziantep.