He lost another animal to hoof-and-mouth disease.

In the rural Marmaracık neighborhood of Yenişehir, Aytaç Afşar, who makes a living by raising small and large livestock, recalled that his animals were gradually being taken away by foot-and-mouth disease, emphasizing that the number of animals in his barn had decreased. Afşar said, "I had 10 animals in my barn, now there are 4 left. I sent another one to slaughter. I sent my 180 thousand lira animal to slaughter. The foot-and-mouth disease is subsiding, but the effects of the devastation it left behind are still ongoing. We waited to see if we could save it, but when it became unable to stand, we had to send it to slaughter." Afşar pointed out that after the animal was slaughtered, only 30 thousand liras were paid to him for the parts that were damaged due to the disease, resulting in an additional loss of 150 ...