Turkey: Bird with Big Nose is Israeli Spy
May 15, 2012 13:16 by Alex Margolin
We’ve seen Mossad Sharks in Egypt and Zionist Vultures in Saudi Arabia. Now, Turkey is claiming it caught a bird with “unusually large nostrils” spying for Israel.
According to Yediot Aharonot, which broke the latest installment of Israel’s conquest of the animal kingdom for intelligence purposes, a farmer spotted a dead bird with a ring bearing the word “Israel” on it’s leg. While that would be suspicious enough, it wasn’t what drew the attention of Turkish authorities. Apparently, it was the fact that the bird had a particularly big nose.
The bird-beak in question reportedly sported “unusually large nostrils,” which – combined with the identification ring – raised suspicions that the bird was “implanted with a surveillance device” and that it arrived in Turkey as part of an espionage mission.
The bird’s remains were originally handed over to the Turkish Agriculture Ministry, which then turned in over to Ankara’s security services.
When it comes to anti-Semitic tropes, Turkey has hit it, well…right on the nose. Hopefully the Mossad will stop using animals to do its dirty work – or at least the ones with classic Jewish features.
Colette Brownell
3:15 pm
May 15, 2012
Without a sense of humour it’s not funny any more.
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Amit
10:27 pm
May 15, 2012
Of course, the Mossad always marks its anumals with a ring bearing the name “Israel” before sending them to their under-cover mission.
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Debbie
7:59 am
May 16, 2012
Oh, that’s just a load of old gobblers.
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Steve Eisenberg
3:36 pm
May 17, 2012
Al of the Turks I’ve seen have little turned-up button noses.
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Des in Spain
4:07 pm
May 17, 2012
Fancy using such a colourful bird to do Israel’s spying. Could they not have found a more drab bird, like the clothing the women of that country wear? Then maybe nobody would have noticed it. I was born in Africa and know this bird well. It comes all the way up to Southern Spain, where I now live.
Good traveller, but voracious eater. Yes, it is the bee-eater. Naughty boy, but not naughty enough to be working for Mossad. Also too noisy! No good as spy.
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Claudia, Tampa FL
4:37 pm
May 17, 2012
I recall this story. The bird was actually being tracked by one of the Israeli universities studying it’s habitat. Maybe you don’t have to be nuts to be Turkish, but it obviously helps! What a sad commentary on Muslim Turkey. We do need to get them out of NATO.
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Abu Nudnik
5:04 pm
May 17, 2012
“The bird was actually being tracked by one of the Israeli universities studying it’s habitat.”
Claudia’s comment above shows how far the Turks are from normal scientific inquiry like tracking birds to lean all sorts of things, not only their habitats but their migrating patterns. All this data gives us information about climate too.
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Dave Cohn
5:09 pm
May 17, 2012
What a bunch of birdbrains!
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Kibbitzer
5:15 pm
May 17, 2012
If Israel had trained a Turkey instead of any old bird it could have passed unnoticed!
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Stan Lee
5:30 pm
May 17, 2012
From my own vantage point, it’s difficult for me to believe that Turks, in general, could be so ignorant as to believe such poppy-cock coming from their government.
The Turkish government is obviously trying every childish approach to stoke up anti-Israeli
sentiment, even to the degree of identifying innocent members of the animal universe.
If this insanity is the norm for Turkey, then that country truly did earn the name assigned to it many years ago…”Sick man of Europe.”
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Ed
7:45 pm
May 17, 2012
Rather than kill the bird, the Turks should go choke their chicken.
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norm_t
8:41 pm
May 17, 2012
Mossad should have given the bird a Nose Job before the Mission.
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frank
8:55 pm
May 17, 2012
Here is the conversation that started Israel down that spying path:
Mossad chief: Mr. Prime Minister, we need more intelligence on our neighbors in Turkey. But, we can’t send a human spy there. He might get caught! What should we do?
Bibi: I don’t know. Just wing it!!
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Arturo
9:01 pm
May 17, 2012
The NASA did not find clever life in arabs countries. They discovered little monkeys preach to the moon called her mujamad or some similar.
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Lurene Gisee
10:49 pm
May 17, 2012
No, the Turks are on to something. I’ve been reporting on stuff like this for years, as you may guess from my Feckless the Cat blog listed above. But these Israeli birds are dummies. These American cats I discuss make serious money while they’re ripping off the world.
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Eli Eisen
12:32 am
May 18, 2012
How low some fall to get to such thing. But we need to stand our ground. We have birds, and lets send them more, particular ones with noses like mine. Proud supporter of Israeli birds.
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Daniel
10:44 am
May 18, 2012
Holly smackuroos, we are in trouble !!
The arch of Noah has been discovered. Isn’t it in mount Hararat in Turkeye.
That country is full of turkeys!!!
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The Kid
11:43 am
May 18, 2012
Well, the turks’ imagination is running wild.!!! What next? House flies working for Israel? Turkey’s citizens should be ashamed of this crazy hatred for the Jewish people and for Israel…This kind of attitue is outrageous to say the least !!
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SLG
3:18 pm
May 18, 2012
We laugh but if you look at relatively literacy rates in Egypt (35% illiterate), Pakistan (42% illiterate) etc. We can see why a TV or Radio broadcast of this non-sense gains traction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological_conspiracy_theories_(Arab-Israeli_conflict)
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