AKP on Bird Flu: Would it be a Biological Weapon?

Wednesday, January 18, 2006
zaman.com
By Fatih Atik, Ankara

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Ankara Deputy Ersonmez Yarbay in a speech delivered at the session {Justice and Development Party (AKP) group meeting}, at which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not attend, put forward the notion that bird flu could be a biological weapon.

“This could be some kind of smart virus that starts from our border regions and is seen in the Turkish cities of Agri and Igdir, but does not pass to Armenia and Iran. It appears to be heading towards the West. Perhaps this is some type of biological weapon; the issue’s military dimensions must be seriously analyzed,” Yarbay said.
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