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Activists protest Marmaris Municipality for animal

rights

30-12-2009 MUĞLA - Anatolia News Agency, Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey


Animal rights activists in the Aegean city of Muğla protested the Marmaris Municipality arguing that the animals kept in a shelter are not well taken care of.

Activists gathered on Tuesday in the Sınırsızlık Square of the resort city with their dogs and banners expressing that animals at the shelter are abused and half of them were left to die outside of Marmaris.

Speaking on behalf of the protestors, Türkan Dağdelen, chairwoman of the Friends of Animals Association’s, or HAYDOST, Ortaca branch argued that 140 animals have been abandoned outside the city in the last three years.”

“Although the municipality denies this fact arguing that the animals have been released in accordance with the laws and regulations, these animals have been abandoned in a deserted region with no chance of finding food,” Dağdelen told reporters. “If this country is ours, all the animals are ours, too. Today, we are here to support them. This is not only being done in Marmaris, the same situation is happening all around the country.”

Dağdelen asked Muğla Gov. Ahmet Altıparmak and Environment and Forestry Provincial Director Mehmet Şahin to act against municipalities that fail to fulfill their responsibilities.

Suna Ak, chairwoman of Marmaris Animal Protection Association, said some animals that should have been at the shelter were spotted around the İçmeler district and in the Hisarönü and Orhaniye villages. “The shelter used to have around 300 dogs,” she said. “Now there are hardly 100. The authorities claim that there are 150 dogs at the shelter, but they do not let us in the shelter to make a count.”

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