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My grandmother was a peasant woman, an agricultural worker, and a landlord’s second wife. One day a government official came to our village—Harmandali, a tiny village in Central Anatolia—and on entering my grandfather’s homestead, he saw my grandmother working barefoot, her feet covered in sheep manure. “Hanim, Hanim,”1 he said, “what kind of a landlord’s wife are you, your feet all covered in sheep dip?” Fatma, my grandmother, responded with great wit and without hesitation, “Mr. Officer, Mr. Officer,” she said, “the one whose feet not covered in sheep dip cannot find anything to eat.”
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Ünal, F.G. (2012). Introduction: Why Agriculture?. In: Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey. The Economics of the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137110886_1
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