By Ali Kucukgocmen and Ezgi Erkoyun
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Hamza Aksoy was supposed to start waiting tables in Turkey’s Mediterranean tourist hub Antalya this month. But the hotel has not returned his calls since the coronavirus hit, leaving him like millions of others out of work with little protection.
Turkey, where infections have surged to nearly 1,900 in two weeks, has rolled out some wage guarantees that economists, unions and opposition politicians say do little for employees, especially seasonal workers in the hard-hit tourism sector.Some 2.5 million Turks will not begin working as they had planned in the next couple of […]
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