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In Turkey's Black Sea Region, a Bitter Harvest for Kurdish Hazelnut Pickers


 In Turkey's Black Sea Region, a Bitter Harvest for Kurdish Hazelnut Pickers
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Thousands of migrant workers have come to a small region on Turkey's Black Sea coast to harvest hazelnuts. The region produces two-thirds of the world's supply of hazelnuts, but the harvest is a hard job and offers increasingly diminishing returns for both the owners and the migrant workers, most of whom are Kurdish. Dorian Jones reports from Ordu on Turkey's Black Sea coast.

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