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Turkish Flour Industrialists Federation Meeting

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    Publisher Milling & Grain
    Year of publication 2019 March
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    Medium Digital
    Edition1
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    Cereal processes > Flour milling > Commercial millers
    Wind & watermills > Rest of the World (not Europe) > Middle East

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    Scope & contentŞanlıurfa, Göbeklitepe
    By Mehmet Ugur Gürkaynak, Milling & Grain

    What makes Göbeklitepe important is the fact that the first ever history of human wheat cultivation and farming in the history of mankind was discovered here.

    The Turkish Flour Industrialists Federation Meeting, organised by Turkey’s Industrialists Federation in Şanlıurfa, Göbeklitepe between the dates 8 – 10th February 2019 with the heading “The Place Where Civilizations Began – Blessing in Wheat - Göbeklitepe” proved to be of great interest and intrigue.

    The zero point in history: “Göbeklitepe”
    Located 20km away from Şanlıurfa, this temple near the village of Orencik, was discovered when the villager Şavak Yıldız wanted to plow his field and found a piece of stone and brought it to the officials at Şanlıurfa Museum.

    In 1995, the excavations were initiated for the first time, in cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute and Şanlıurfa Museum Directorate. Göbeklitepe is one of the oldest known religious buildings in the world, dating from the Neolithic Stone Age, and has architectural remains belonging to ceremonial sites for worship…. Read more.

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