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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 28 October 2019)
Santa's lovely helpers.
Years ago a businessman in Burdur province's Bucak district began to
produce 'door decorations' and today it's become an export that reaps
hundreds of thousands of Euros. Now, once again, the production
season has begun for the Chrisitian holiday of Christmas on 25
December so Europeans can afix these wreaths to their doors.
The wreath-making in Bucak is an important source of income for
the women there. They will make nearly 650,000 of the wreaths by
Christmas, for export them mainly Holland but also to Germany,
England, Spain and Belgium. In workshops and homes, 300 women
in Bucak make 25-30 wreaths per day, earning a daily wage of between
100-150 TL ($15-$20).
The shrubbery, branches and fruit for the wreaths come from forests
that are under the supervision and inspection of the forestry
administration. The wreaths each contain about 15 tree and plant
parts: bilberries, scarlet firethorns, dog-rose, eucalyptus, dogwood,
mountain ash, white sandalwood, bead tree branches, dates, roots of
sarsaparilla, forest garlic, decorative berries and eggplants.
The loveliest of assembly lines.
The unit price of the wreaths is 25 Euros and export starts at the
beginning of October, sent to Europe in refrigerated trucks and
planes. Businessman Adnan Aksoy explained that "so far we've
sent 50 TIRs (tractor-trailer trucks) and each of them contained
9,000 Christmas wreaths. The seasonal export total will be about
650,000 wreaths, reaping for us about 1.5 million Euros."
"This production has been going on in Bucak for about 20 years but
it began in Antalya. All the wreath-makers are women, whose
husbands collect the wreath contents from the forest. Some
women make 50-60 wreaths per day. This year we've gotten
requests from the USA for the first time and we've sent samples
to the Maldives and Seychelles. For the first time, this year we
will export wreaths to Japan."
Bucak district is in southeast Burdur (darker red on map).
Coincidentally, Demre, the home of 4th century St. Nicholas,
is located straight south of Bucak, on Antalya's Med coast.
Santa's Magic click here for a recent TNT report about
Demre.
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