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Ataturk Dam - GAP project
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11 Dec 2007 Tue 05:19 pm |
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The new irrigation systems created by the GAP will double Turkey's irrigable farmland in a region which has traditionally suffered from light rainfall. New irrigation has already brought about a corresponding boom in agricultural activity. From just one crop per year, in many areas five crops in a two-year cycle have become or will soon be possible. Crop yields of cotton, wheat, barley, lentils and other grains have reportedly tripled in the Harran plain as a result of irrigation from the Ataturk Dam. Land values have risen rapidly. Family income, number of personal vehicles and number of tractors in the region have nearly tripled in the past eight years. The range of new products under cultivation is also expanding. Farmers are now experimenting with new varieties of fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
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11 Dec 2007 Tue 05:34 pm |
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What made me laugh deeply, when I was in Saudi, was the way most Arabs compared water and oil.
To them, water originating from Turkia was meant for humanity and the Turks had no right to regulate, store, divert, sell and make maximum use of their water. They figured that the water had to be allowed to flow freely, as nature intended.
The same guys invariably considered oil as god's deliberate gift to Arab race. They figured that Arabs had every exclusive right to screw around with it - to their own hearts desire.
COMMENTS ARE INVITED FROM ALL ARAB MEMBERS !
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11 Dec 2007 Tue 06:20 pm |
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Quoting AlphaF:
COMMENTS ARE INVITED FROM ALL ARAB MEMBERS ! |
Salam Aleikum Friend!
It is natural that water flows freely in nature. It is a gift. From God. Oil, that is something you must dig up and it is much more rare. Camels do not function with oil. Nor do we. Do you function with oil? Do you make excavation to bring black gold to the surface? Did you invent drinking? No. Did humanity invented cars and mechanical locomotion? Yes.
PS I live abroad, i am a dentist. But my father and the father of my father, they were all oil diggers. No wonder i make such wonderful excavations! 
Peace be with you.
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11 Dec 2007 Tue 06:26 pm |
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so, if the people that "dig" it up should keep it, that would still mean the Arabs don't have the right to the oil. The western world developed and "dug" for this oil....
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11 Dec 2007 Tue 06:27 pm |
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I am glad some people realized that one cant drink oil. As for being rare, a bottle of drinking water, in most Arab countries, is more expensive than same volume of oil.
My suggestion is that all Arabs get real...this god's gift story does not wash at all...they may soon find out what the real story is...
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