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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 19 September 2023)
They're scared of bears. Storks are easy prey.
Along the shore of the Sazlıdere dam lake in Arnavutköy, Istanbul, at
about 8 o'clock in the morning the day before yesterday, two men
arrived in a car with license plate 34 MP 1968 and began to shoot
storks with long-barreled guns. Picnicking citizens protested so the
illegal hunters took their guns and the storks they'd shot and departed.
One of the picnickers, Yücel Kaya, related that "we saw two armed men.
They lay in ambush and fired on the storks. We made noise to try to scare
away the storks but the birds didn't move and the men kept shooting at
them. We went over to them and said 'what are you doing?!' and in
reply they said 'we're hunting. For food.' Then they left."
Animal-lover Gürkan Gazoğlu stated that "we heard about this early in
the morning. We heard that foreigners were shooting migrating storks
at Şamlar Sazlıdere. Our friends got all the particulars and the
authorities went into action. The storks stop over at this watering
place en route to warmer climates. Unfortunately, these people were
shooting the storks for food."
A citizen recorded the illegal foreign hunters with a cellphone. Police
traced the car's license plate and arrested foreigners I.S. and Y.G. for
disturbing the peace and torturing animals. They will be deported after
police processing.
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