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(Tek Haber Agency website, 29 May 2026)
"Plan? What plan?...heh heh heh."
A sacrificial cow that went missing eight days ago after separating
from its herd in Köse district of Gümüşhane was found in a dynamite
storage pit belonging to an old dam construction site. The animal,
which was rescued from where it was trapped with the help of an
excavator, was determined to have survived for days by drinking only
rainwater. Having lost weight , the cow was spared from the Feast of
Sacrifice "festivities" (!).
The cow ,belonging to Ömer Faruk Kesler, a livestock breeder in the
district, went missing after straying from its herd. Kesler searched for
days, with the support of Gendarmerie teams, but the search in the
forested and mountainous areas yielded no results. Despite having a
bell around its neck, the animal's cries went unheard for days. It was
eventually found in an old construction site near where it disappeared.
A shepherd grazing his herd in the area noticed the sound, leading to
the discovery of the animal in a dynamite storage pit. The cow, which
had survived for eight days without food, relying only on rainwater,
prompted a rescue operation.
Lives to graze another day.
The walls of the warehouse were demolished with the help of an excavator
called to the scene, and the cow was safely removed from where it had
fallen. The moments when the freed animal immediately began grazing
on the grass, and the rescue process itself, were captured on the cell phone
cameras of onlookers.
Livestock breeder Ömer Faruk Kesler, who was reunited with his animal
after a search, expressed his happiness with these words:
“We searched everywhere for days. We looked everywhere, near and far.
But this was fate. We found it near us. I'm sure it went through very difficult
times. Thank God we found it. Because it was so thin, we gave up on
sacrificing it.”
