Change of Latin Names of Fauna in Turkey to Remove Origins

March 08, 2005
Azertag

The Ministry of ecology and forestry of Turkey has issued order to change local fauna specimen’s names which in classical Latin were referred to geographical determination “Kurdistan” and “Armenia”. Henceforth a red-haired fox which was earlier named “Kurdish fox”, has dropped the word “Kurdish”. Animals under the name “wild Armenian sheep” which inhabit the mountain heights of the Turkish Anatolia, now are renamed as “wild sheep of Anatolia”. An Armenian deer will henceforth be named simply “deer”.

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