News Center- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Co-chair Tülay Hatimoğulları and the party’s members visited seasonal agricultural workers and farmers in Manisa’s Şehzadeler district on Tuesday as part of the “Bread and Justice” campaign.

The delegation listened to the problems faced by seasonal agricultural workers and farmers who grow and harvest tomatoes in the gardens.

Our biggest problem is to make both ends meet because we earn only 850 Turkish liras although we work for the whole day, the agricultural workers told the delegation, stressing that what they earn is insufficient to buy food or pay their rent.

Before we could sell all our products but now we cannot sell them, the owners of the gardens told Tülay Hatimoğulları.

‘This country needs bread and justice’

“It is difficult to make an honest living,” said Tülay Hatimoğulları after listening to the problems faced by both seasonal agricultural workers and farmers. “The prices of meat, milk and bread are not being calculated. The number of people suffering from hunger and poverty is increasing in Türkiye. In the past, one person could provide a living for a family. But now, 14-year-old children say they cannot make both ends meet. Small farmers are also in a difficult situation. They cannot sell their tomatoes. This country needs bread and justice. We will struggle to make your voices heard.”