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Central Asian women going to Turkey for work

Musharraf Gosimova seven years ago, she came to Turkey from Dushanbe, where the salaries were very low, and did cleaning work and became a nanny for a young family in Antalya.

“I came to Turkey with my aunt, who is a citizen of Uzbekistan and knows many Uzbek families in Turkey. Through their friends, we found ourselves a job and a place to stay. Although the price of almost everything has increased, it is difficult to live, but we are satisfied.” Gosimova says.

Hundreds of thousands of Central Asians, including many women, go to Turkey to find work. Turkey because of them Russia and is the third most popular migration destination after Kazakhstan.

of Uzbekistan Labor According to the information of the Ministry, 145 thousand Uzbek migrants worked in Turkey in the first quarter of this year. This means 6% of up to 2.4 million Uzbeks working abroad.

30 thousand migrants from Kyrgyzstan work in Turkey. Turkmen migrants, whose number reaches 230 thousand, constitute the largest Central Asian migrant community in Turkey.

Turkey according to the information of the government, 120,000 Turkmens received residence permits in this country, and 95,000 received short-term visas.

The real number of Central Asian migrants living in Turkey is thought to be much higher than that. Because the number of people who stay and work illegally in Turkey after their visa expires is not small.

Some of the Turkmens living in this country are employed national he doesn’t have a passport. Because the repressive government of Turkmenistan does not allow its embassies to renew expired or lost passports of citizens.

Turkey 2018The financial crisis faced since 2006 has hit immigrants hard. In this country since then inflation the end 20 reached an unprecedented level of 80%.

Consumer goods prices has increased to an unprecedented extent. An influx of wealthy Russians trying to avoid mobilization has also fueled already rising real estate prices in Antalya and several other cities in recent months.

The depreciation of the lira means that migrants can now send less money to their families back home.

“I get my salary in lira and exchange it for dollars to send home. The lira is shrinking fast,” Gosimova says.

However, despite all this, most Central Asians do not plan to leave Turkey. They have no better options.

Russia remains the main migration destination for citizens of the former Soviet republics. But as it stands, it has lost its former charm. Many migrants fear economic uncertainty in Russia. Men are worried that they might be sent to war there.

In recent years, few Central Asians have been able to find seasonal work in Britain. Europe Union and USAThere were also those who could switch to

However, many Western countries, which are already facing a serious migrant problem, do not want to accept additional migrants.

Amid chronic unemployment and poor wages in Central Asia, many families in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are completely dependent on remittances from relatives abroad.

Kyrgyz, who used to work as a teacher Saadat Omurbekov four years ago he came to Turkey to find a better job. Those three years are smart and sick took care of people. Later, he found a job in a cafe in Antalya.

“I was working in my specialty in Kyrgyzstan, but my salary was very low. I had to pay for my children’s education. That’s why I quit my job and moved to Turkey to earn more money.” – Omurbekova tells RFE/RL.

A large number of migrants from Central Asia are women who work as servants, carers and nannies in private homes in Turkey. Some work in the hotel and service sectors. There are also those who open their own business, for example, a clothing store or a salon, in the big cities of Turkey.

However, working in Turkey has its own difficulties. Some women face problems because they do not know the Turkish language, the country’s laws and their rights.

An employee working in Turkey says that migrants, especially women, who want to go to this country should never believe in dubious job advertisements and should not go to this country without a job offer with a valid contract.

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