Turkey: bird suspected of spying for Israel is cleared

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A bird tagged with a metallic ring that was recently captured in a Turkish village in the eastern province of Elazığ is not spying for Israel, Turkish officials have determined.

District officials sent the bird, a small kestrel, to Fırat University in Elazığ, where veterinary hospital personnel x-rayed it to make sure it was not carrying microchips or any other spy devices. The technicians – jokingly, we assume – labeled the x-rays, “Israeli spy.”

Turkish officials said in a statement that they released the falsely accused bird back into the wild.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/turkey-bird-suspected-spying-israel-cleared

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