Historical Background of Turkey-Syria Relations in the Term of Social Geograpy

Historical process between Syria and Turkey has always high tension. According to Turkey, Syria is the country,which has hosted the Turkish enemies, which causes problems in the sharing of water resources and geographically it is seen as ‘’enemy country’’ because of interfering in Turkey's territorial integrity; According to Syria, Turkey is "enemy" is because it doesn’t share water resources in a fair way and as supporters of western countries, claiming rights over their territory (Hatay). In short, for many years strained relations with Syria-Turkey relations , by signing of the Treaty of Adana in 1998, good relations has been established with unpredictable speed in a short time . Escalating positive relations between Turkey and Syria in the years 1998-2011, and relations has again strained the outbreak of the Syria Civil War in 2011, and was even worse off period before 1998. Therefore the main goal of this study "Historical Background of Turkey-Syria Relations in terms of Social Geography" is to examine the dynamics of it. For this purpose, treaties defining the Turkey-Syria relationship, the protocols, briefings given by officials were examined. Historical background of the two countries' relations in terms of social geography has been tried to put forward in chronological orde

ŞANLIURFA İLİNİN TARIMSAL YAPISI, SORUNLARI ve ÇÖZÜM ÖNERİLERİ

The province of Şanlıurfa has more fertile lands (64.1%) comparing to the other agricultural lands in Turkey ( 36 %) and the lands in the GAP Region (43%, South-East Anatolian Project). Therefore the province is promising a rich and available situation in terms of having agricultural lands. However, when the province is analyzed in terms of using modern agricultural vehicles, as result of lack of not benefiting form the lands enough, it is seen that there are serious structural problems. In this study; the most important issues of the structural features such as agricultural features and geographical dispersion of the lands, irrigation situation, agricultural business structure, mechanization, using quality germs (seeds) using chemical fertilizers and agricultural chemicals, farmer organizations, capital, transportation and marketing are examine

A Study on Living Conditions of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers: Hilvan County (Şanlıurfa) Sample

This study is carried out to identify living standards of seasonal agricultural workers in Hilvan County of Şanlıurfa that largely rely on agriculture and have sufficient or little cultivable lands. Study sample is composed of families of the students who attend schools affiliated to Hilvan County Directorate of National Education and are involved in temporary migration before the school term ends in a year. “Face to face” interviews were held with and questionnaires were applied to heads of 523 families which live on seasonal agricultural labor. The results were assessed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) through various statistical techniques required for the study purpose. Majority of the children of families wh