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Insect Stamp of Turkey

Turkey exists at the important position to bind Asia and Europe together, and is surrounded by countries such as former Soviet Union in the north, Syria in the south, Greece in the west, Iraq in the east. The days of Ottoman Turkish Empire appeared since 1299 to 1922 and enlarged a territory so as to sit astride three continents of Asia, Afurica and European in the golden age, but it received the decline from the 17th century, defeat in World War I, and the empire collapsed. It build a republic in 1923. The second republican form of government starts by a military coup in 1961.
The insect stamp was issued from Turkey in 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1983. Various kinds of insects, such as playing mantid, cicada, fly, hover fly, tiger beetle, and leaf weevil, are drawn beautifully ecologically, and the stamp of Turkey is one of the favorite insect stamps. Two kinds of insects which will all be in the stamp of issue in 1980 at the relation of Natural enemy are drawn.
Two kinds of stamps which it drew a silkworm on were issued in 1989.

Vedalia Beetle is Natural enemy of agricultural noxious insect Scale Insect attached to various plants, such as mandarin oranges, a mulberry, Heavenly bamboo, and an acacia, and is famous as useful agricultural chemicals. Parasitic Wasp is small, and its egg laid pipe is very long and it lays many eggs on a larva just before becoming pupa of moths, such as owlet moth, or a butterfly. The contents of pupa will be eaten by the larva of Parasitic Wasp which returned from the egg. Although the body is small, the role played in an ecosystem as Natural enemy of a moth or a butterfly is large. Since Calosoma Beetle eats and kills a vegetable leaf and eats the larva of European Gypsy Moth famous as a health noxious insect, it is always on tree. Although many of Shield-backed Bug suck fruits, such as the department of a rice, the pulse family, a department of a chrysanthemum, an apple, an oyster, and a peach, and it is known as a noxious insect, depending on kinds, such as Plant Bug, there are some useful insects which eat Aphid with which a vegetable stalk etc. is crowded.

Cyprus is an island having the half area of the Shikoku, appearing in the Mediterranean Sea. It became Ottoman Empire territory in the 16th century after the government of Egypt, Greece, Persia, Rome, and it was occupied by the U.K since the latter half in the 19th century. It became independent in 1960, but developed into a civil war by inhabitants of Greece origin and Turkish inhabitants. The Turkish inhabitants declared that it becomes independent as "the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" in the North in 1983, but it is only Turkey that approve. The United Nations adopted a resolution in search of withdrawal of this Declaration of Independence. It suggest "a federate nation plan" to constitute in Greece system and two Turkish areas and try an action toward peace, but do not lead to solution.
Four kinds of insect stamp are issued form this Turkish Republic of North Cyprus in 1998.

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