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Anatolian Leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana
Valenciennes, 1856)
The Anatolian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana), also called the Asia Minor
leopard, was proposed in the 19th century as a distinct leopard subspecies native
to southwestern Turkey, and is currently subsumed to the Caucasian or Persian
leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica syn. Panthera pardus saxicolor).
The first camera trap photograph of a leopard in Turkey was obtained in
September 2013 in the Trabzon Province. In November 2013, a leopard was killed
in the Çınar district of Diyarbakır Province. This specimen is considered the
western-most observation of a Persian leopard (Wikipedia).

The shepherd Kasım Kaplan and the dead body of the Anatolian leopard lying on the
ground in Diyarbakır's Çınar district, Turkey.
http://fotogaleri.hurriyet.com.tr/galeridetay/75095/2/7/leopari-oldurmenin-cezasi-bellioldu

Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 121 – January 2015