We saw very different kinds of problems when we visited nomadic Roma. The nomadic Roma live in what they call tents, but do not actually deserve this name. They are structures made of wood, plastic and cardboard. Families of six or seven live in such dwellings. They are not nomadic by choice, but because they cannot afford to rent a house.
Social security is almost absent in Turkey.
They live of making and selling baskets in summer, gathering paper, selling flowers and begging. Some nomadic Roma, especially those living in villages, are allowed to stay in one place and are even provided with a flimsy house. Others, however, are chased from place to place approximately once a week. Then the police return with a bulldozer and destroy the rest. The men are then released and they rebuild their tents either in the same place or somewhere else.