Fear brews in Turkey's landslide-plagued tea hills

Last August he was almost swept away by a mudslide when a tea garden above his home in the village of Abdullahhoca began to slide down the mountain during a downpour. The house above his was destroyed with part of the field ending up in his kitchen. "It's a miracle that no one was killed," Komurcu told AFP, an electricity pylon still perched dangerously over his mud-splattered home. The tea-growing province of Rize in Turkey's northeast has been repeatedly hit by major landslides over the last 50 years.