Turkey: Dried tomato export from Diyarbakır to Europe

150 tons of tomatoes produced for commercial purposes in Diyarbakır started to be dried for export to European countries. Diyarbakir's dried tomatoes are also used in pizza making in Italy. Tomatoes, which enter the world cuisine every year in the rural Topraktaş Neighborhood of Bağlar district, are dried and exported. Despite the fact that the temperatures in the city are above seasonal normals, the workers bring the tomatoes from the field and cut them one by one with knives to dry them. The cut tomatoes are then salted and kept under the sun for 6 days. Food Engineer İsmail Mürselim, who came to Diyarbakır from İzmir and grows tomatoes in Diyarbakır and Mardin regions, stated that they dry the tomatoes they produce and export them to European countries. Mürselim stated that they have been doing their current job in the Aegean region before and said, "We have been growing and drying tomatoes in Diyarbakır and Mardin regions for 5 years. We are cutting and drying the tomatoes we ...