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ADANA (DIHA) - Director of Adana Transporters Association Seyfi Zeper, who said that more than 450 thousand highway transportation workers would be unemployed with the new Regulations of Highway Transportation prepared by the Ministry of Communications, said: "People are left unemployed by the hands of the state. We are shutting off contacts in order to protest this."
Truck drivers protested the Regulations of Highway Transportation that is on the agenda to e actualised on 25th Febeaury 2006 by the Ministry of Communications. Director of Adana Transporters Association Seyfi Zeper, who said that 450 thousand highway transportation workers would be unemployed with this practice, said: "People are left unemployed by the hands of the state."
Zeper, who said that they expressed their reactions by shutting off the contacts of their trucks in Adana Nakliyeciler Sitesi, said that they were against the policy aiming at favouring a minority for a monopoly and destroying thousands of small and mediocre enterprises. Stating that they did not ask for privilege from the Ministry of Communications, Zeper spoke: "If these regulations are implemented, there will be excessive freight; there will be no free competition and an increasing decrease in the share of our country in transportation. We are against the idea of killing the atmosphere of free competition, and insistence on unemployment and helplessness."
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