{"id":4,"date":"2008-06-30T06:54:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:21:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:21:27","slug":"press-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/30\/press-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Badem faces death threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Press Watch \u2014\u00a0 The Voices Newspaper, 15 June 2008<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>DIDIM\u2019s adopted seal Badem has been assigned three gendarme officials after one man threatened to harpoon it.<\/p>\n<p>The seal, which injured a number of people last week in Bodrum, including As\u0131m K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckosmano\u011flu who was trying to play with him, caused one person to threaten to harm the hapless animal.<\/p>\n<p>Not leaving the Bodrum \u00d6ren Beach for days, Badem was again the centre of attention last week when he [sic] bit several people, including 65-year-old lawyer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckosmano\u011flu who almost drowned due to the incident.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->However, the incident took another twist, when members of the public heard beach lover Murat Sert expressing a rather less than positive view of the seal.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sert claimed that, like many others, he was timid of going in the sea and feared Badem. He said: \u201cI have come here to swim. Yet I can not because Badem attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have as much right as him to swim. If Badem comes across me when I am fishing with a harpoon, I will have no mercy for him. I will kill him and nobody can say a word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His forthright views aroused animal lovers who stated they were going to place a criminal complaint against Sert.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Badem all at sea, while three Gendarmes walk the beach to ensure no harm comes to him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full article<\/strong> <em> no longer online<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><br \/>\nFurther info<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monachus-guardian.org\/mguard21\/2117mednew.htm#NewsWatch\">Ambassador with Attitude<\/a>, TMG 11 (1): June 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Watch \u2014\u00a0 The Voices Newspaper, 15 June 2008 DIDIM\u2019s adopted seal Badem has been assigned three gendarme officials after one man threatened to harpoon it. The seal, which injured a number of people last week in Bodrum, including As\u0131m K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckosmano\u011flu who was trying to play with him, caused one person to threaten to harm &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/30\/press-watch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Badem faces death threats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1,52],"tags":[8,9,10,15],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediterranean-news","category-med-monk-seal","category-turkey","tag-rescue","tag-rehabilitation","tag-release","tag-badem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}