(1 Sep 2024)
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Istanbul, Turkey – 1 September 2024
1. Various of demonstrators holding banners reading (Turkish) "We will keep them alive", "You cannot round them up, imprison them and kill them" and chanting, UPSOUND (Turkish) "I am on the streets next to you", "AKP, keep your hands off the animals" and "Don’t be silent, scream, no to the massacre."
2. Various of demonstrators marching, UPSOUND (Turkish) "Come scream too" and "AKP, shove your law."
3. Crowds arriving at rally ground
4. People holding posters
5. Crowds walking
6. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Hasan Kizilyatak, demonstrator:
"It saddens me to say it’s a law that is not accepted by the public. We want this law to be withdrawn immediately. Why? They (stray dogs) are living beings, just like us. We are here because we are against them being annihilated. Against a massacre with this fait accompli, this law."
7. Various of demonstration
8. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ayten Arslan, demonstrator:
"Just like we stood beside our president on 15 July (2016), when there was a coup attempt, we are here for the stray animals. I say as an AK Party supporter, this law is a bloody law. It should be withdrawn."
9. Close of poster reading (Turkish) "#withdrawthelaw, #notothebloodylaw"
10. Demonstrators applauding
11.Tilt down from poster reading (Turkish) "Round up pedophiles, not the dogs" to demonstrator
12. Various of demonstration
STORYLINE:
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Sunday to protest a recent piece of legislation that critics say is leading to the killing of stray dogs across Turkey.
Last month legislators, including those from the ruling AK Party (AKP), approved the new law aimed at removing millions of stray dogs from Turkish streets, citing safety concerns.
Animal-lovers fear it will lead to widespread culling or dogs ending up in disease-ridden and overcrowded shelters.
Protestors in the country’s largest city called for the law to be repealed, holding posters reading "shelters are death camps" and "withdraw the bloody law."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the law was necessary to deal with the country’s “stray dog problem.”
The government estimates that around 4 million stray dogs roam Turkey’s streets and rural areas.
Although most are harmless, several people, including children, have been attacked.
A report released by the Safe Streets and Defense of the Right to Life Association, an organization campaigning for the removal of all stray dogs from the streets, says that 65 people have died in street dog attacks since 2022.
The new legislation requires municipalities to collect stray dogs and house them in shelters to be vaccinated, neutered and spayed before making them available for adoption.
Dogs that are in pain, terminally ill, pose a health risk to humans will be euthanized.
However, many question where cash-strapped municipalities would find the money to build the necessary extra shelters required.
Animal rights activists worry that some municipalities might kill dogs on the pretext that they are ill rather than allocate resources to shelter them.
AP video shot by Mehmet Guzel
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