Italyan, rum casusu çikti is the second studio album by Italian rock band Elio e le Storie Tese.
The album title is in Turkish and means "Italian (man) found out to be a Greek spy".
This phrase appeared in a Turkish newspaper after Massimo Rana, an Italian photographer, who was believed to be a spy, was arrested in 1991 by the Turkish-Cypriot police.
[2] The artwork, partially based on a stock photo and digitally re-touched by CGI artist Alex Koban, ironically reverses a concept taken from the 1984 spy-parody film Top Secret!, in keeping with the spy theme in the album title.
The limbs were originally meant to be Elio's, but Koban refused to use them as they were very hairy;[2] his choice went instead to Giancarlo Bozzo, founder and co-owner of Milan's stand-up comedy club Zelig,[10] where the band had its debut.