Erdogan: between killing stray animals and threats to neighboring states
«Էրդողան. թափառող կենդանիների ճնշումների և հարևան պետություններին ուղղված սպառնալիքների միջև». Կառլո Կոպպոլայի հոդված.
A Turkish bill to regulate the country’s millions of stray dogs began its way through parliament on July 24, 2024. Many animal rights advocates fear these dogs will be killed, tortured, or starved to death in filthy, overcrowded dog kennels.
The President of the Republic of Turkey, who has been making his voice heard more actively domestically and internationally in recent days, encouraged his party’s lawmakers to move forward with the bill, after a parliamentary committee led by his party approved the bill’s preemptive legitimacy on Tuesday evening.
The full parliament will meet for a final vote in the coming days. The government estimates that around 4 million stray dogs roam the streets and rural areas of Turkey. While many are harmless, the bill continues, a growing number are gathering in packs, and several people have been attacked in Istanbul and elsewhere. Cat lovers, however, should rest assured. The country's notorious street cat population is not the focus of the bill, as initially mooted.
Erdogan noted that stray dogs "attack children, adults, the elderly and other animals. They attack flocks of sheep and goats, cause road accidents." The bill requires municipalities to round up stray dogs and "host them in shelters" where they should be, at the very least, sterilized. The bill would also contain a section on the "merciful euthanasia" of animals, justified by the potential epidemiological risk posed by equally "potentially infected" specimens to the human population and other animals.
Also in relation to his "humanitarian and ecological goals," yesterday, Sunday, July 28, President Tayyip Erdogan publicly stated that Turkey could enter Israel, as it has done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, although he did not specify what type of intervention he was suggesting. Erdogan, who has been a critic of Israel’s offensive in Gaza since the beginning, has included the discussion on relations with neighboring states in a speech about the war industry and his country’s right to defend itself.
“We have to be very strong so that Israel cannot do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we could do something similar to them,” Erdogan said while in Rize.
“There is no reason why we cannot do it ... We have to be strong so that we can take these measures,” Erdogan added in the televised speech. Neither lawmakers from Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party nor Israeli officials immediately commented.
The gravity of the statements of the Turkish president remains, who now feels entitled to publicly reveal what he has always denied at an international level, namely his involvement in the war waged by Azerbaijan against the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) and his direct interest in the definitive destabilization of Libya. In the meantime, his emulator and ally, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev, continues to indirectly threaten the Armenian sovereign state and extends his long arm to England, where his money reaches the University of Oxford, chairs dedicated to the history of Azerbaijan, an ethnicity artificially invented on the basis of the Tartar people, are established, and teaching dedicated to the history of ancient Armenia is instrumentally reduced. The Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano" also joins in the pro-Azeri chorus and this ugly affair, and in a deadly and shocking silence it cites the phantom and never-existing population of Caucasian Albania, used as a pretext to justify the destruction of the Armenian cultural heritage in Artshakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and Nachigevan.
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