{"id":26765,"date":"2013-07-27T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=26765"},"modified":"2013-07-27T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T13:19:14","slug":"turkey-arrests-a-kestrel-for-spying-for-israel-but-releases-it-without-charge-after-x-ray-shows-it-did-not-contain-surveillance-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=26765","title":{"rendered":"Turkey arrests a KESTREL for spying for Israel&#8230; but releases it without charge after X-ray shows it did not contain surveillance equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials were told that a secret service agent had been discovered only to be handed&#8230;\u00a0 a kestrel.<\/p>\n<p>The bird was held in Turkey on suspicion of spying for the Israelis after a metal ring on its foot carried the engraved words \u201824311 Tel Avivunia Israel\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Suspicious residents in the village of Altinayva then handed it over to their local governor.<\/p>\n<p>But the bird of prey was freed after X-rays showed it was not carrying surveillance equipment and the ring was a tag for researchers to track migrations.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t stop Turkey\u2019s Milliyet newspaper later carrying a front-page image of the radiogram with the title \u2018Israeli agent\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ties between Ankara and Jerusalem have been tense since 2010, when Israeli commandoes killed nine Turkish activists aboard a ship that was helping to break a blockade of the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials were told that a secret service agent had been discovered only to be handed&#8230;\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,140,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-region","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}