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Turkey seizes 3,400 smuggled terrapin turtles at border
14:08 November 27, 2019 AA
An individual, holding a Russian passport, tried to enter Turkey with thousands of smuggled terrapin turtles on Wednesday. Searching through the vehicle of Elmaddin Mamadev, Turkish border guards discovered 3,400 terrapins hidden in nine pizza boxes during controls at Sarp border gate in the northern Artvin province, said a security source.