Terror-stricken farmers' loan debts to be postponed

Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has announced that the agricultural credit debts of terror-stricken producers to Ziraat Bank and the Agricultural Credit Cooperatives (ACC) will be postponed for one year without interest due to terrorist attacks in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakır, Şırnak, Mardin and Hakkari, thanks to a draft law on the issue that has been submitted to the Prime Ministry.

The deputy prime minister said the said regulation will cover the producers whose products, livestock, facilities or greenhouses were damaged due to terrorist attacks that occurred in Diyarbakır, Şırnak, Mardin and Hakkari in 2016.

Şimşek said the decision is expected to be published in the Official Gazette soon, informing that the producers, whose debts are within 90 days from the maturity date or to whose accounts receivables to be liquidated are transferred, will be able to apply to Ziraat Bank or the ACC in two months from the publication date of the said decision.