Turk agriculture tightens belt, ending way of life
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Cetin Akyar's calloused hands  pass over a string of black prayer beads as traders at the  Polatli Commodity Exchange determine the price for his harvest  of nine and a half tonnes of wheat.
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ISTANBUL &#151; Turkey has always shown two faces: One, confidently pointing toward Europe, is wealthy, urban, and secular; another, gazing eastward, is poor, rural, and devoutly Muslim.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey&#39;s prime minister, has been travelling so much recently that most Turks have to turn on their television to find out where he is.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 -- The Turkish military has ramped up military operations along the southern border with Iraq, with aircraft reportedly bombarding the mountainous terrain on Wednesday, part of a growing confrontation that threatens to open a new northern front in the Iraq war.
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Concerned about a crackdown on immigrant labor, more farmers have been moving across the border to Mexico.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Migrants seeking a better life in Iraq? It sounds bizarre but thousands of Turkish Kurds are finding jobs and trade opportunities across the border that are largely absent at home.
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Thursday Turkey was determined to take the necessary steps to end the threat from Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp ...
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A growing population coupled with diminishing fresh water supplies should force major changes in the way the world's farmers water their crops in the coming decades, a recent study recommends.
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GUIHUA, China -- For years now, nearly half the rice, wheat and vegetable farmers in this village in Henan province have been unable to make a living off their land. They have turned instead to more profitable migrant work in large, faraway cities.
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The AKP sweep has implications for the country's drift from secularism, the military's role and the future of relations with Iraq.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¿s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. Rain forest spread lush in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Perched on a hillside overlooking the mountainous northern Iraqi border, Kurds in the southeastern Turkish town of Sirnak are nervously monitoring preparations for a possible cross-border military operation.
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Turkey has become more democratic in recent years, and the competing forces of the religious and secular have burst into full view.
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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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Afghan women find economic freedom, dietary benefits in vegetable crops.