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waste pickers
New regulations trouble Türkiye's informal recycling workers
Türkiye has about 500,000 informal recycling workers who are responsible for around 80 percent of the recycling in the country. The government's attempts to regulate informal waste picking cause some new problems.
7 October 2022
Wouter Massink
Arrested in İstanbul, 3 recycling workers released
Taken into custody and arrested as part of the operations against recycling workers in İstanbul, three recycling workers have been released 24 days later.
29 October 2021
Raid on waste and recycling workers in İstanbul’s Sancaktepe
A raid was carried out against the workers who make a living as waste paper and plastic pickers. Several refugee workers have been detained to be deported on the grounds that “they came to Turkey illegally.”
7 October 2021
‘POLITICIANS SILENT’
Raid on waste collection depots: 200 people detained
Three waste pickers were also arrested on October 5 on the grounds that they joined the protests the other day.
6 October 2021
Fire in Syrian waste paper pickers’ house claims three children’s lives
According to the preliminary reports, the fire in Konya province broke out due to the electric heater used for the children upstairs.
23 June 2021
Waste Picker Hamza: They Act Like We Don’t Exist on the Streets
Hamza is a waste picker strolling along the streets of İstanbul, collecting waste for a living. “Even our garbage is different than that of the rich,” Hamza says and adds, "No one asks, no one cares about us... They act like we don't exist on the streets."
25 March 2020
Evrim Kepenek
Waste Pickers: We Cannot Make Ends Meet Only with Food Aid
Speaking to bianet in the wake of a ban on waste picking in Ankara amid Covid-19 outbreak, Street Waste Collectors’ Association Chair Kahraman says, “If we don’t work, workers of factories will also lose their jobs. We wait for help from the government.”
24 March 2020
Hikmet Adal
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