| The area between the modern Turkish capital, Ankara, and Hattushash, the capital of the ancient Hittite Empire that dominated the region 3,000 years ago, sums up the evolution of Turkish agriculture over the last few decades of the twentieth century (and of the Near East in general over the last few millennia). The expansion and diversification of crops (ornamental plants, fruits, and grains) have restricted the activities of animal breeders. Under pressure from government and the market, they have focused on cattle-raising, resulting in a rapid decrease in the number of sheep and goats. Transhumance and nomadism are on their way to extinction. Today Turkey has fewer than 100,000 nomadic people, all of whom belong to tribes in eastern Anatolia or the Taurus in southern Turkey. These changes in agriculture also herald the end of 10,000 years of agriculture and animal raising (the oldest traces have just been found in Cyprus) evolving together and fighting one another. |
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