Residents in Idlib, which is controlled by the opposition, in northwestern Syria, began converting their Syrian currency into the Turkish lira, after the opposition's rescue government decided to sell bread and fuel exclusively in the Turkish currency, which led to a great congestion on the exchange shops spread in this city and in its northern countryside.
The opposition aims to convert the daily circulation currency from the Syrian pound - whose value is falling against the dollar and other currencies every day - to the Turkish lira in order to achieve a kind of stability in the prices of basic materials and daily commodities whose price has changed several times a day.
Most of the goods are bought from Turkey in US dollars and the population buys them in Idlib in Syrian pounds, which made people tired and shocked.
Umm Khalid, fifty, supports a family of eight people, is accustomed to going to the market of the Top Square in Idlib, where she offers vegetables, fruits and goods of many types, which entitles her to search for cheaper vegetables due to their low quality.
Citizen who was shocked by the high prices says that her money is not enough to buy the goods needed for her family today, and she was buying all of her needs for the same amount a short time ago.
Surprising decision
Abu Ahmad al-Muhajir from Aleppo, who lives in a neighborhood in the city of Idlib, sees that the implementation of the decision by the opposition came as a surprise and that he lacks regulatory mechanisms, pointing to the difference in the exchange rate of the Turkish lira between one exchange and another, as well as with the shops that sell in the Turkish lira, which will increase the loss "The Dervish citizen," he said.
As for Ahmed - who works in a blacksmith workshop in the industrial area of Idlib - he still earns his wages in the Syrian pound, so he sees that a great injustice has occurred on him and his fellow workers, because he does not refuse to convert the daily circulation currency into the Turkish lira, but he demands the government to transfer workers ’wages To the Turkish currency before making the decision to sell bread and fuel with it.
He complains that the worker, after a hard day's work, will have to stand an hour or two in front of the exchange, to transfer his wages from the Syrian pound to Turkish.
For his part, Dean of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences at the University of Idlib said. Jamal Bililo to Al-Jazeera Net "The change of the trading currency to the Turkish lira will have a good effect, but it is relative because the Syrian currency will remain on the market."
He pointed out that the bad currency in the end will overcome the good, and sees Dr. By night, the opposition's efforts to put the Turkish currency on the market will not succeed unless it abolishes the existence of the Syrian currency and prevents its circulation completely.
The Syrian pound deteriorated as a record to more than 3 thousand pounds compared to one dollar in the current June, while it was up to 70 pounds in 2012, and before the revolution 50 Syrian pounds to one dollar.