Turkish Airlines gets the hump

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Turkish Airlines gets the hump

Some say camel meat tastes like 'coarse beef'
A job well done is worth celebrating, but Turkish Airlines say staff
went too far when they sacrificed a camel.
To mark the last delivery of 100 aircraft, maintenance workers clubbed
together to buy the beast - and then consume it.

The sacrifice took place at Istanbul international airport.

"They didn't ask permission," a spokeswoman for the airline told the
BBC, adding that the boss of the offending staff had been suspended.

He will remain off work while the incident is investigated.

Camel is eaten in Turkey, while the sacrifice of animals - usually
sheep - is performed during the Festival of Sacrifice, marking the
prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son when God ordered him
to.

"But it wasn't anything to do with that," said Belgin Alisan of Turkish
Airlines, which was last week accepted into the Lufthansa-led Star
Alliance.

"They went too far. We are really quite shocked."

Top-selling daily Hurriyet said 700kg of camel meat had been
distributed among the workers.