The time has come for the harvest of chili in Turkey.Turkey's Sanliurfa edible paprika meets a large part of its needs.With the completion of the pepper harvest began the construction of the Isot.
Starting in July every year in Sanliurfa, the season of paprika production began until October.
In the city centre, many families rolled up their sleeves to turn the peppers they had grown in their fields into Flake peppers on the roofs of their homes with their children.
With the start of the Isot construction, the empty plots in the neighborhood of the secret and the roof of many houses were red.
Families who make a living by making isot buy tons of peppers.
Families sell the peppers they buy domestically and abroad.
After a long work, pepper turns into isot.
With the start of the season, every home in the city has a sweet fuss about the producers of the Isot Ibrahim Bayır, "40 in this weather above the degree of the air before washing peppers, then separating from the seeds. Then we leave it to the sun to dry. After drying, we sweat the peppers in dark tents. We also process some of these as pepper paste. At the end of a frapped study, the pepper becomes the isot, "he said.
Bayir, the workers in the construction of 3 pounds per sack, and according to the working status of the daily 50-100 pounds, said they have provided earnings.
This year, due to the long rainfall of the farmers who can not make the planting of the Bayir, "This year, compared to last year, the Isotta 50 percent of the exeration, which leads to the increase in prices. We are working 14-15 hours a day for making a fairly troublesome isot. We're having a hard-on with the air temperature. The organic Isota is more interested in home construction, "he said
Children Of Suffering
Children aged 7 to 15 years in the Isot fields spend a lot of the day working with their families to make money.
In Şanlıurfa, where temperatures exceed 40 degrees Celsius, the child workers working under the sun in the Isot field during the day, the bags full of bitter isot 3 pounds. Daily 30-40 Turkish lira of money is gaining.
The high school student who cleans the isot with his mother, Muhammet Özkurt, "My tablet is broken and I work here to repair it and to remove the allowance. I have 30-35 Turkish lira of money in my hand per day, "he said.