Ali Asker
2006-10-24 00:14:49 UTC
Turks are accused of hunting, torturing, killing and sexually abusing
'unclean' dogs
By Amberin Zaman, in Ankara
(Filed: 27/03/2006)
Pro-islamic municipalities in Turkey are killing stray dogs, animal
rights groups claim.
Municipal workers are hunting, torturing and killing the animals by
the hundreds, the campaigners say.
The allegations surfaced when Burcu Isikalp, a young veterinary
surgeon, went searching for seven strays she had been caring for near her
home in the capital, Ankara. Witnesses told her that municipal workers had
taken them away.
She went to Ankara's largest refuse dump, Mamak, where she found one
of the strays with hundreds of other dogs. "They were all dead, stacked in
large pits," she said. "We also found 10 dead puppies in a bound plastic
bag. There is a myth among pious Muslims that dogs are unclean."
Animal rights campaigners who accompanied Miss Isikalp last week said
that at least two of the dogs had been sexually abused.
The mayor of Mamak, Gazi Sahin, of the ruling pro-Islamic Justice and
Development Party, has denied responsibility.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
'unclean' dogs
By Amberin Zaman, in Ankara
(Filed: 27/03/2006)
Pro-islamic municipalities in Turkey are killing stray dogs, animal
rights groups claim.
Municipal workers are hunting, torturing and killing the animals by
the hundreds, the campaigners say.
The allegations surfaced when Burcu Isikalp, a young veterinary
surgeon, went searching for seven strays she had been caring for near her
home in the capital, Ankara. Witnesses told her that municipal workers had
taken them away.
She went to Ankara's largest refuse dump, Mamak, where she found one
of the strays with hundreds of other dogs. "They were all dead, stacked in
large pits," she said. "We also found 10 dead puppies in a bound plastic
bag. There is a myth among pious Muslims that dogs are unclean."
Animal rights campaigners who accompanied Miss Isikalp last week said
that at least two of the dogs had been sexually abused.
The mayor of Mamak, Gazi Sahin, of the ruling pro-Islamic Justice and
Development Party, has denied responsibility.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/