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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.   
While agricultural teacher Mehmet Bueker talks to the farmers, the women fetch water from the village's only fountain.
Turkey, 1952
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.   
While agricultural teacher Mehmet Bueker talks to the farmers, the women fetch water from the village's only fountain.
Turkey, 1952
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.   
The laundry has just been hung up to dry on fence and shrubs when the teacher arrives.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.   
Buecker dines with a farmer and his family. His wife Hamiyet, a schoolteacher, and a colleague are on an inspection trip to smaller, one-class schools. Normally, no women are allowed to take part in men's meals, but the two "professional"women were admitted.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.   
Buecker dines with a farmer and his family. His wife Hamiyet, a schoolteacher, and a colleague are on an inspection trip to smaller, one-class schools. Normally, no women are allowed to take part in men's meals, but the two "professional"women were admitted.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.   
Bueker talks over coffee with an old farmer of Muessluem village. The man's brother lives in Istanbul and sent the first radio to the village.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.
Bueker rides to his next assignment in an open jeep on Anatolian dirt roads.  
Turkey, 1952
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.
Bueker visits a family in Cekirdeksis and watches the wife take  
hot bread from the oven outside the house.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.
When paths become too rough for a jeep: Bueker rides on horseback from Muessluem to Cekirdeksiz, two small hamlets in Anatolia.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.
When paths become too rough for a jeep: Bueker rides on horseback from Muessluem to Cekirdeksiz, two small hamlets in Anatolia.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.
Bueker fishing in the Sakarya river in his free time.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers.
Bueker demonstrating the use of a tractor in Cekirdeksiz village.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...