Turkey’s largest opposition party has appealed to the country’s Constitutional Court to overturn a controversial law that paves the way for the mass killing of stray dogs. The law violates animal rights and international treaties, Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Gokhan Gunaidin wrote in X. The CHP, which won the most municipalities in the country in local elections in March, had earlier said it would not implement the law. At the end of July, despite mass protests, the Turkish parliament passed the law allowing the killing of stray dogs in certain cases. 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. The changes allow the euthanasia of dogs deemed by vets to be sick or aggressive or deemed to pose a “risk to human and animal health”. This will it […]
Source: News Beast
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