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(L-r) Rifat Yildiz, 68, and Muaffer Akturk, 57, walk across Akturk's land which is traversed by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline for which he did not receive compensation despite suffering a 50% decline in income resulting from agricultural production on his land in the Kurdish village of Dagci, Turkey on August 10, 2010.  Akturk won his court case against the state oil company, BOTAS, for compensation after independent consultant mistook his land for state property, but now there is a new court case between BOTAS and the Turkish government as to who will pay the compensation funds.