Greeks turn turtle
Restaurants specialising in turtle soup may have do do without their main ingredient after Greek forestry officials freed 423 restaurant- bound tortoises near the northern city of Salonica.
The animals were illegally taken from various parts of Greece by two unidentified foreigners who intended to sell them to eastern-European restaurants.
Associated Press
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