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Selected Works
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Turkey's century-long struggle with paper: Factories, foreign dependence, and soaring costs
For Turkey, paper has long been more than a commodity—it has been a symbol of the nation’s sovereignty and ambition. Yet today, rising import costs, shuttered factories, and fluctuating exchange rates threaten a once-proud industry. The first products of the paper factory established in Izmit in the mid-1930s / Photo: AA (Archive) Paper, which dramatically changed the form of communication when it was discovered thousands of years ago, has been at the center of debates for ma
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