"Turkey sits at major crossroads for migratory birds
ANKARA - Turkey, where two teenagers have died from bird flu in the first such fatalities outside Southeast Asia and China, is crossed by three major routes used by migratory birds blamed for the spread of the epidemic.
Each year in the autumn around half a million migratory birds take these 'highways' to fly from northern Europe to Africa and the Middle East, according to statistics from Aegean University.
The largest route is that from central Europe to the Balkans and from there to northwestern Turkey and across the Marmara Sea and Bosphoros strait at Istanbul that separates the continents of Europe and Asia. From there the birds head towards the eastern Mediterranean and then the Nile river in Egypt."
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