Turkish firms resume egg exports to Syria

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Hasan Konya, Egg Producers Association of Central Anatolian province of Konya, has said Turkey started sending eggs to Syria after three years. AA photo

Hasan Konya, Egg Producers Association of Central Anatolian province of Konya, has said Turkey started sending eggs to Syria after three years.

Turkey has restarted egg exports to Syria after three years of interruption caused by political turmoil in the war-hit country.

“Our trade with Syria began again one and a half months ago and we export 2 to 3 million eggs in a week,” Hasan Konya, Egg Producers Association of Central Anatolian province of Konya, told Anadolu agency.

“I, hopefully, think the war there will end in the near future and our exports will resume faster,” he said, adding the currently sent amount was still far from the pre-war period’s impressive amounts.

Iraqi businesmen sell

He said there were buyers in Syria who they directly contacted, or Iraqi businessman sold the eggs they bought from Turkey to Syria. “We do exports through the free zones in Antakya and Ceylanpınar,” he said.

The Turkish egg sector’s exports in 2013 reached $400 million with a considerable rise from $350 million in 2012, According to figures provided by Konya.