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    Turks find wolf in sheep's clothing

    Irish Times
    Mar 05, 2005


    TURKEY: Turkey's environment ministry has renamed three native animals
    to rid them of names which ministry officials believed were given by
    "foreigners" with a territorial axe to grind.

    A sheep species previously known as Ovis Armeniana has been renamed
    Ovis Orientalis Anatolicus . A red fox was renamed as Vulpes Vulpes
    rather than Vulpes Vulpes Kurdistanica . A deer named Capreolus
    Capreolus Armenius was renamed as Capreolus Caprelus Capreolus
    . "Unfortunately there are many other species in Turkey which were
    named this way with ill-intentions. This ill-intent is so obvious that
    even species only found in our country were given names against
    Turkey's unity," the statement said.

    Turkey has tense ties with its eastern neighbour Armenia, which it
    does not officially recognise. It has also waged a bloody war against
    Kurdish separatists, who have sought an independent state in Turkey's
    southeast. The ministry said scientific studies led to the choice of
    new names.
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