BBC Turkey reports plans for ‘second’ Suez Canal after falling for April Fool’s joke in UK media ...News

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An April Fool’s story in the Guardian claiming that there were plans to construct an alternative to the Suez Canal was picked up by the BBC’s Turkish service, which deleted its report after realizing it had been duped. The Guardian ran a tongue-in-cheek article on April 1 which stated that UN officials wanted to create a new waterway, dubbed “Suez 2”, that would run along the Egypt-Israel border. According to the British outlet, the idea was hatched after the Ever Given container ship beached, blocking the Suez Canal for a week. A fake statement (that wasn’t) provided by the UK Foreign Office said that Britain was aware of the plan a

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