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The Turkish opposition calls for the annulment of the law on the killing of stray dogs

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Ακύρωση νόμου γ ιανταδσποσκλζ&tau η τουρκικor αντιπολτευση /></p> <p><strong>Turkey's largest opposition party appealed to the country's Constitutional Court to annul a controversial law, which paves the way for the mass killing of stray dogs.</strong></p> <p>The law violates animal rights and international treaties, Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Gökhan Gunaydin wrote in X.</p> <p>The CHP, which won the most municipalities in the country in local elections in March, he had earlier stated that he would not implement the law.</p> <p>In late July, despite mass protests, the Turkish parliament passed the law allowing the killing of stray dogs in certain cases.</p> <p>The changes it makes to an existing animal rights law give municipalities the power to round up stray dogs and lock them up in animal shelters for adoption or other measures, including killing.</p> <p>The changes allow the euthanasia of dogs deemed by veterinarians to be sick or aggressive or deemed to pose a “risk to human and animal health”. That will be up to the veterinarians to decide.</p> <p>Animal rights activists, however, fear that the majority of these animals will be killed, citing the inadequacy and lack of regulation of animal shelters in Turkey.</p > <p>The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan justifies the measure, including by arguing that stray dogs repeatedly attack people.</p> <p>According to the government, there are an estimated 4 million stray dogs in Turkey, but only around 100,000 places in animal shelters.</p> <p> </p> <p>source: OMEGALIVE</p> <p><noindex></p> <div class=Source: 24h.com.cy

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