Once fertile Dashoguz turns into Turkmenistan’s salty wasteland

2018-4-23 13:33

Residents of the area have become accustomed to the salt layer, which emerges in the spring, rendering arable land infertile. When locals utter the words shor yerler (“salty marsh” in Turkmen), their intonation resembles one of resignation, as if talking of a terminally ill patient. источник »

once fertile dashoguz turns into turkmenistan salty wasteland