The nightmare prospect is that Turkey's farmers, about 45% of the nation, with no more state subsidies to keep them afloat, will flock to the cities, whose swollen shanty-towns are already a fertile breeding-ground for extremists, be they Islamists, Kurds or others.

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We are talking about breeding starlings here rather than wintering starlings, many of which are migrants from the North and East and still flock to the South West in huge numbers: as attested to by the spectacular roosts of a million birds or more on the Somerset Levels.

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