Turkish Grain Board

No problems will occur in grain supplies until the new harvest season, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has said after the Ukraine-Russia crisis erupted.

"It is envisaged that no supply shortage will emerge in grains, particularly wheat, until the next harvest season," the ministry said in a written statement on Feb. 24.

Turkey has taken all necessary measures related to the drought and there will be no problem in the future, the country's agriculture and forestry minister said on June 29. 

Touching on supply problems during the coronavirus pandemic globally, Bekir Pakdemirli said Turkey has never seen this type of problem thanks to its measures.

Cultivation areas across Turkey have narrowed dramatically over the recent years, while hikes in food prices on a global scale are making it harder to import agricultural products, a former official has warned.

As people in Turkey take precautions against coronavirus, they need not fear any disruption in the nation's food supply, said a top Turkish official on March 18.

Turkey has no problem in the production, stock, or supply chain of basic food products, said Bekir Pakdemirli, the agriculture and forestry minister.

Farmers may soon hit the streets unless the sector's deep problems are resolved, a leading association has warned, adding that the agricultural sector has become a scapegoat in explaining why the inflation rate is so high. 

A 2,000-year-old tomb from the late Roman era serves as a fountain in the village of Çak?rköy in the western province Afyonkarahisar. 

Turkey's corn producers have been forced to sell off their produce at a loss after the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) failed to set prices for a ton of corn on time in a move that is likely to benefit middlemen once more. 

The Turkish military has ruled out Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party's claims that Islamist jihadists fired on Syrian Kurdish militants from the Turkish side of the border with Syria.

The sources instead claim that Syrian Kurds were using a Turkish depot for shelter while Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants stayed across the border for only "a few minutes."