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2-Healthy harvest usually drives retail prices of Olive oil down. On the street of Afrin, a container of 16.5 Kg of olive oil currently sells for as little as SYP 13,000. #Aleppo (40 km away) residents however, are having to pay SYP 30,000 for the very same Container. Why? ==>

3-Armed groups in control of #Afrin are sending the finished Ollive oil to Turkey first. If any of the olive oil were to make to the residents of #Aleppo , the countless checkpoints along the 40km road collect enough fees to send prices of each container up by nearly

4-Aleppo residents had usually source their olive oil from either #Afrin or #Idlib province. Since both regions are not in Govt control, residents are having to bear the cost. Those in charge of checkpoints are pocketing huge sums of money to allow passage of such goods

5-Inflation rates on most basic commodities continues to rise across the basket of consumer goods while incomes are largely stagnant. There seems to be no bottom for Standards of living of residents on fixed income. The numbers simply don’t add up

6-Fighting corruption in this war economy is nearly impossible. Average state employee monthly salaries are around SYP 45k. Cost of living for family of 5 is at least SYP 250k. There is only one way to make the difference. And prices continue to climb with every uptick in $ rate

7-Syria’s north that is not in Govt hands is exerting further pain on residents who ate having to pay checkpoints every time they need to make the trip north or when they need goods. The loss of #Afrin as commercial center has dealt a blow to #Aleppo ‘s economy

8- Just this week and as the $ exchange rate rose rose from SYP 430 to 470, retail price of bag of cement in the market rose in lock step from 1200 to 1600. With flat Wages and incomes, inflation keeps eating away at the standards of living of most residents, poorest especially

9-As Putin continues to wait for Erdogan to deliver on #Idlib , remember that Syrians now have lost their largest oil fields to Kurds / USA as well the water resources of the Euphrates. This year’s top rate olive harvest will not find its way to Syrian residents either it seems

10-See here how 80,000 tons of olives are expected to be collected in #Afrin where #Turkey has set up a unit to help transfer the produce to Hatay before it is processed and marketed to Europe. Via @enver_pashaahttps://twitter.com/operationafrin/status/1043805779265040384?s=21 …