Yildiz Holding company, a major Turkish manufacturer of food products, suspended production in its Hi Food factory in Egypt to protect its employees against recent curfew in the country.

Hi Food, with its 910 employees, produce biscuit for Middle East, North and West African countries, said the company in a statement.

The factory began operating in 2009 and has a production capacity of 30 thousand tons of biscuits annually.

Anadolu Agency