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The ads were titled “An open letter to our prime minister.” The ads pointed out that sugar workers are eager to make Turkey a leading country in the global sugar production market and are ready to make any sacrifice for the sake of this goal. However, the sugar workers claimed, the privatizations will present a serious obstacle to reaching this aim by triggering the closure of at least 18 sugar refineries, pushing over 350,000 beet farmers out of business, causing nearly 9,000 workers to lose their jobs and all in all making Turkey fully dependent on foreigners for its sugar needs.
The ads called on the government to bring about a series of reforms to increase efficiency rather than selling off its refineries, such as increasing the capacity utilization of facilities and “transferring total ownership of sugar refineries to beet producers, as in the US and Europe.”
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