Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Is there a potato conspiracy in Turkey? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Is there a potato conspiracy in Turkey?

Potatoes are not to be taken lightly. In the 1840s, the history of a nation was swayed when disease ravaged Ireland’s potato crops and the resulting famine reduced the country’s population by some 25%, as a million people perished and at least another million emigrated during the seven years now known as the Great Famine, the Potato Famine or Gorta Mor in Irish.

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