Inside Europe: Harvesting hazelnuts on Turkey's Black Sea coast
Politics
Dorian Jones
August 16, 2019
Thousands of migrant workers have arrived in a small region on Turkey's Black Sea coast to harvest hazelnuts. The area produces three quarters of the world's supply of hazelnuts, but the harvest is hard work and offers increasingly diminishing returns — for both the owners and the migrant workers, most of whom are Kurdish. Dorian Jones reports from the province of Ordu.