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1986_July-Sept_86HH -    Note: 929

Page: 168-169
Date: 19. 8. 86.
Location: Talas
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i(1064 Hus. Alpaslan's) oda. They were busy settling accounts and we were an intrusion.

Room - 3 Adanali running Bicer-Dosir. They began in Adana in ?May and went to Konya, then to Kayseri; now to Punarbai and Uzan Yayli and then home.
Fees here 550 TL a dec. - no profit imi. In other places 600 TL-700 TL. Depends on the land and the competition.
"Pazarlik yaplik"{?} - some sense of being ground down.
They sleep by their machines in the open. Have a car - went to Adana for Bayram and came back second day.

4. Elba used them - i(1054 Sleyman Akyrek), i(1064 Hseyn) and two others.

k<agriculture> k<mechanisation> k<occupation>

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