Location: Sulaymaniyah – Iraq
Language: Kurdish
Voice: Natural
Duration: 00:03:36
Source: A24
Restrictions: A24 Clients
Dateline: 18-03-2022
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Taxi drivers in Sulaymaniyah parked their cars in the middle of the main road in the city center; in a protest against the high prices of petrol, demanding the government to reduce the prices at 450 dinars per liter, similar to the rest of the governorates.
Protests and roadblocks in the Kurdistan region occur frequently, due to the price of petrol, which has tackled unprecedented spike, amid the regional government’s inability to find solutions, as the price hit 1100 dinars per liter for regular fuel after it was 650 dinars.
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(SOUNDBITE) Jabbar Ibrahim – Taxi driver:
“We taxi drivers in Sulaymaniyah, depend on petrol to make our living. We do not have a regular income, and our houses are rented. We demand the regional government to reduce the price of fuel to 450 dinars per liter, similar to the governorate of Kirkuk.”
(SOUNDBITE) Bakhtiar Hama Amin – Taxi driver:
“We demand a reduction in the prices of petrol because it hit 1200 dinars per liter which is very high. Our work cannot bear that. Not only we taxi drivers were affected by the rise, the rest of the people were affected too, and they also reject this rise. We all reject this huge rise.”
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