Turkish food firm halts Iraq supplies

[Barrett808]

ANKARA: A Turkish food distributor announced yesterday that it was suspending operations in Iraq because of the deteriorating security situation there, the Anatolia news agency said.

Solmaz Gida - the main distributor in Iraq for eight Turkish food companies - is the latest Turkish firm to halt activities in Iraq following a spate of attacks on Turks working in the country.

Veysel Solmaz, the chairman of Solmaz Gida, said the company has already closed down a supermarket in the northern Iraqi town of Sulaimaniyah and frozen plans to market food items in other cities, such as Kirkuk, Mosul and Baghdad.

Solmaz said the company, based in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig, had invested $500,000 in Iraq.

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[Logiola]

1. I guess...

Halliburton will just have to take over