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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. Bueker at Polatli railway station, where he has come to talk to the county agent, get new pamphlets and buy provisions with his wife, a schoolteacher.
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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. During a wedding in Cekirdeksiz, to which Bueker was invited, "professional entertainers" were brought from Ankara. While the village women still wore their traditional colourful clothes, the "professionals" wore informal European dresses.
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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. Outside the "People's House", a community centre found in every Anatolian village, musicians invite guests to join in the celebration.
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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 sipping Turkish coffee with a farmer in one of the eight villages in his district.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...

A Turkish farmer.
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A Turkish farmer.

Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers. In Gordion (that of Alexander's knot!) the farmer's daughter pours water over his hands before he enters the house. Against local tradition, she greets the teacher without a veil.
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Mehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain...