Turkish butchers made a discount of 10 TL on meat

Deputy Chairman of the Butchers Federation of Turkey Osman Yardimci evaluated meat prices after the VAT rate on food products was reduced from 18 percent to 1 percent. Indicating that they had made a promise before in case of a discount, Yavaş said, “We kept our promise. A kilo of meat, we dropped 10 TL. Today, we have reduced the price of minced meat by 10 TL. We reflected the discount on the labels. We have never been opportunistic. We insisted on reducing VAT to 1 percent. Our President announced, it was a breath of fresh air for the shopkeepers. The tradesmen also have a lot of input. If we buy 70 TL of beef, 25 percent of it is the bone and the waste it gives until it reaches the town. Our inputs have increased a lot. If I take these into account, our butcher has never been opportunistic. I say it again today, the cheapest product today is meat. Today, an eggplant is 25 TL. Half of it goes to waste. But we eat all the meat. We kept our promise, it was 7.7 TL per face, we ...