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Pig Journal Volume: 66
Publication date: December 2011

General Section

THE DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK RESOURCES OF TURKEY: PIGS
R.T.WILSON, O.YILMAZ, M. ERTUGRUL

Abstract
The pig is just one species in the rich array of farm animals that is found in Turkey. There is archaeological evidence from the Neolithic age of wild pigs, Sus scrofa, undergoing the process of domestication in southeastern Turkey some 12,000 years ago. Turkey is a secular republic but its people are mainly of the Islamic faith which forbids the consumption as food of the flesh of the pig. It is thus understandable that there are very few pigs in the country and these supply a small Christian,mainly Greek community and the tourist trade. There have been no reported cases of any of the pig diseases on List A of the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) (although Foot and Mouth Disease occurs in the extant wild boar population), nor of any of the zoonotic helminths, but bacterial pneumonias have been isolated on a number of occasions. There is no producer organisation for pigs and the species is not included in Turkey's otherwise extensive programme of conservation of food animals. Neglect and even antipathy by the government and its services may eventually lead to the disappearance of this species from Turkey.

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