It all started last Friday with our release of a hidden-camera recording taken at the infamous Municipal shelter of Hasdal (Istanbul). This exceptional document, as it exposes the terrible reality of Turkish shelters. It shows in a direct and impacting way the brutal behavior of turkish shelter workers, the abhorrent manner in which animals are treated there and the horrific reality of what in Turkey is called, euphemistically “Animal Rehabilitation”.
Then, on Saturday, Haberturk, one of the leading newspapers in Turkey published the horrific conditions in which animals are operated in the shelter of Çerkezköy, near Istanbul.
The Turkish animal lover community is torn about how to handle such disclosures.
On one side many of them feel compelled to downplay the seriousness of the situation in an effort to hide the truth of the horrors in front of the international community. Nobody likes his country shown in such poor light.
On the other, many of us are determined to continue fighting and exposing this shameful reality in the hope to improve the situation.
As most of you know last year we focussed most of our efforts in rehoming as many blind and handicapped animals as we could, most of them coming right out of shelters like the ones shown in those images.
This year the priority of this group will be to completely expose and shame the people responsible for the situation in Turkish shelters. We are going to push for a complete overhaul of the turkish shelter system.
This country is No-Kill by law but in fact it is a vast Killing field.
I give you my word,we are going to do our change that, sadly, most of you will not like what you will see. Don’t forget one thing, the
readers of this blog are, or should be, above all, animal rescuers and animal protectors. If you don’t feel this way you are simply in the wrong place.
Call Kadir Topbas, the Mayor of Istanbul NOW. Let him know the entire world is looking at this same in their computer screens and DEMAND the correct application of Turkish Animal Welfare Law 5199
Kadir Topbas direct line: + 90 212 45521400
Email: baskan@ibb.gov.tr
You guys have to continue to expose these atrocities that are committed against the animals of Turkey. Turkey must be shown to the world the horrors they are committing. You are right about another thing, we don’t like what we see but if we dont see it then we dont know about. I suppose the more graphic the photos are the more the world will sit up and take note. I support the great work you do.
This is terrible please could you put it on my profile so I can show it to my M.P
who I am going to see this week some thing has to done tell us what we can
do to really help don’t just show us this let us help
“THE GREAT SHAME OF TURKEY SHELTERS”
PLEASE! STOP! THIS MASS KILLING OF *ANIMALS* THIS IS A GREAT DEAD CAMP! OF EXTERMINATION! WITH TORTURE ,BARBARIC ACT OF NO HUMAN RIGHTS! VERY OUTRAGEOUS! UNJUSTIFIABLE, DESPICABLE, AND THIS VIDEO IS ABJECT ! UMBEARABLE!! MAKE ME SIC! TURKEY AUTORITY “MUST! TO APPLICATE THE LAWS OF PROTECTION TO THE *ANIMALS* HARDENING! AND DURABLY!!!! WITH MORE INSPECTIONS! IN THEIR SHELTERS OR FOSTER ! AND SEVERELY PUNISHED ALL ACT OF ANIMALS ABUSERS!! BUT ALL CREATURES TO COME FROM *GOD* .
We salute you and your organisation of protecting these wonderfull animals. I hope that in due course, all animal-abusers, will get their sentence. The humans are the beast. The only thing that these animals want…is love. And what do they get…..horror. We have saved two puppie’s from Oman and if it was up to us….we would save many more……..we can be foster-home and even help in financial way. I know, that if i would see those abusers, hurting these animals….i would go to jail for a very long time…..because i would kill the cowards. Keep up the good work and keep us up-dated.
What is going on, so many dead dogs!!!!Why are so many dead????? And where are they taking the ones in the truck. These are not caring people who work there, this is so very distrubing….
We have to stand together and fight to the bitter end to put an end to this endless murder of innocents!!!! Speak up loudly, insist on change and above all never give up the fight against this barbaric treatment and murder of helpless animals!!! Sickened by Turkeys lack of compassion!!!
THIS IS SO TERRIBLE I CAN’T EVEN COME UP WITH WORDS TO EXPRESS MYSELF!! I’m simply dumbfounded as to why anyone could even treat animals with such torture. This makes me sick … my heart has sunk to an all time low :'(
Totally disgusting. I have emailed Kadir (although who knows how well he understands English) and I have also passed on this information to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) an organization in America. If they can bring this issue to light to their community, then this could reach millions of Americans. I hope this birngs some pressure!! Fear is the biggest motivation for change, and I think I would fear millions of pissed off animal lovers. 🙂
It’s horrible, inhumane, I have no words, I am totally sad after to see this video, it is a shame and I doubt that these people may have feelings, are monsters!
I cant tell you what i feel.
There are murder without shy.
Shame on you!
THE WORLD IS LOOKING AT THIS SHAME !!
Email sent, I hope these people either rot in hell for eternity or learn to be decent human(e) beings, something they are not even related to at the moment. I would call them animals, but that would be an insult to our furry friends.
For the love of GOD, in whatever religion you like. Stop this horror. These are living breathing beings that fear, hurt and feel pain. Please help stop the cruelty.
Those pictures are going to be hard to forget. I hope the government on Turkey is against this and does something about it. Thank you for making us aware of it and I hope that you can make people who visit Turkey as tourists aware of it as well.
Have mercy on THESE LOYAL dogs.These Dog killers are capable of killing humans and can go to any extent for money.
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
“For every action there is a reaction. According to the law of karma, if we cause pain and suffering to other living beings, we must endure pain and suffering in return, both individually and collectively. We reap what we sow, in this life and the next, for nature has her own justice. No one can escape the law of karma.’
Email sent. I will be forwarding the video to all our leading travel agencies & also our major newpapers. In addition I will be contacting WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals). This is totally unacceptable behaviour !!! These poor, innocent, defenceless animals deserve concern & should be treated with respect & given the necessary medical treatment.
You should share all the pics you have of the horror you found with all your followers on FB. I just saw these pics and this video and it even it more real for me and made me that much more driven to do something to help. It opened my eyes even wider to what these people are doing! You should share them all!
We are Lauar… we are… It’s all coming out here..
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43518&id=111324518892054
Awful, astonishing! It must be stopped!
What type of human being can do this…KADIR TOBAS…yeh, what a man…NOT
You are obviously suffering from “LITTLE MAN SYNDROME” which has left you feeling so inadequate that you need to torture, maim, bully, torment & inflict as much suffering as can be imagined.
KADIR TOBAS youre nothing but a bully, coward & total loser.
YOU & YOUR COHORTS WONT GET AWAY WITH THIS…
……PLEASE PRAY FOR THE DOGS
I can not understand,that the representatives make ridiculous their own law(§5199)!!!
how can they demand respekt,when they allow cruelty against defenceless creatures?
PLEASE MAJOR TOPBAS;SHOW US, THAT NOT INHUMANITY OVERCOMES IN TÜRKEY!!!!
dr.maria rochholz
Miserable bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can you do this atrocity!!!? I hope you all die in the same way you are killing this innocent dogs. Shame on your #%$@*&*@^ peace of shit country!! Istanbul. Why don’t you try to kill one like yourself? I bet you would shit your pants before even trying it. You kill these poor dogs because they can not defend themselves. Go to hell bunch of beggars.
c`est incroiable comme on fait avec les animaux sans defense,comme il hà degens encore dans notres jours qui son capables de faire des atrocvites contre les bout de chous, plus inteligentes que certaines personnes……s.v.p.arretez avec c’est massacre…..
Pitié pour ces malheureux chiens .Honte à ces barbares .il faut protester pour arrêter cette barbarie!!!
c’est inadmissible !!!!!
Great work you do.
Is this sure the email address is : baskan@ibb.gov.tr ?
Because I’ve sent the email and I’ve received an error message.
Thanks
Céline (France)
Yes… that’s the address.. our emails collapsed their server..
ce qui se passe en turquie se passe aussi en france, moins souvent, mais tout de meme, en fait la religion musulmane ainsi que la religion juive pense que l’animal est sale et impur, tant que ces coutumes médiévales qui ne tiennent sur rien de scientique
demeures, nous ne pouvons leur demander de changer.
regarder la france, pays laique qui permet a ces 2 religions l’abattage rituel qui est d’un
barbarisme inouie, et personne ne bouge.
MALEDETTI
VERGOGNA!!!!
Hi Viktor, I am terribly sorry for what happened at Hasdal Animal Shelter. I As a Turkish citizen, I am ashamed of this kind of inhumane behavior. I wanted to you know that I was able to contact the shelter today, andI spoke with Ahmet Bolukbasi, who claimed that they receive disabled or injured animals everyday, and those images don’t reflect the reality. He said he is willing to show the place to any person who contacts him. His number is 0212 360 34 19. Unfortunately, I live abroad, therefore I am not able to make it, but I contacted every animal group in Turkey who can send a group of people to the shelter. I would appreciate if you could also contact one of your representatives to visit the place. Ahmet said they have staff who speak English very well. Thanks for your attention.
Gizem… we were with Ahmet Bolukbasi a couple of days ago in a meeting with his boss..
He was trembling like a leaf under the autumn wind..
I would be surprised if he still has a job by next week…
ordures…JE VOUS HAIS !!!!!
Does anyone know what the latest is on this??? I really want to know please as I have been working hard to get the word out about this.
Please let me know what else I can do to help get this place SHUT down. Karma! Karma! Karma! Its going to come back around to these people!!!!
Zelime2002@aol.com
I agree with Genoveva!!!
Please, Mr. Kadir Topbas, stop this horror!
je suis outrée de voir comment vivent ces pauvres animaux ,c’est de la torture ,vous êtes obligé de faire en sorte que ces horreurs cessent,nous comptons sur vous
mr topbas may you rot in hell!!!! this is unforgivable and so disturbing to know you can sleep at night! shame on you and turkey for letting a scum bag like you continue your evil works of pain, suffering and death, this dogs go here for help and love, not what you give them.
This is horrible beyond words. i say it again,
THE BLOOD OF THESE DOGS IS ON YOUR HANDS!!!
Kadir topbas is a murdering inhumane evil that deserves no air to breathe and no where to hide!!!
This is not a “shelter” it is a slaughter house. What is wrong with these people that they treat helpless creatures like this??
EVIL PEOPLE DOING EVIL THINGS TO INNOCENT ANIMALS. YOU ARE TOO LAZY TO SORT THIS ISSUE OUT ….SO YOU KILL AND TORTURE …..DAM YOU ALL
Shelter? Dogs holocaust,it’s a disgrace,it needs to stop
I can’t watch the video,those pictures speak a thousand words by themselves,knowing that I can’t do any more, breaks my heart, I can’t bear any longer all that horrible suffering, I wish so much it’ll stop,but if its not those dogs suffering in Turkey will be any other animal in the rest of the world,it’s just awful,we are the worst animal ever created
why all that people taking the pictures just to cause this huge commotion don’t do shit about it? they obviously know is wrong otherwise they wouldn’t bother to take this pictures incriminating themselves, how come there’s even pictures of the dogs in the woods,dying? how did they know the dogs were going to be dumped in there? and why nobody did a thing apart from taking fucking pictures? I understand its important evidence and also necessary, I personally would’ve thrown a massive stone to the fucking driver in the head let the c*nt rot in the woods and put the dogs back in the van to be taken to a proper shelter were they all can be well cared for,there’s videos of people working in the shelter upset because of what they see on a daily basis yet none of them have clean the dog poo all over the floors and dogs cover on it, could anybody answer me?
Excuse me… who told you we only take pictures.
Does it seem to you like we only take pictures? have a look at this video:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1519518630643
You are invited to come over and help.
Here is a video explaining the situation. Apologies.. it’s in french.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150090194723930
Still.. you’ll get the picture.
Imma… How do we know the dogs are going to be dumped there? Well.. there are hundreds of animals there already.. THAT is the dumping place?
Do we do anything other than taking pictures? Yes.. we rescue as many as we can…
There is no “proper” shelter in Turkey.
This is a crime and they ( the people that work at the shelter) have to be prosecuted and be put in jail. They should be faced with the death penalty.
It is sick and unforgivable. Shame on Turkey. Shame on them. THis is pure animal cruelty.
Stop them now.
Shame on Turkey. Shame on you. God is watching you and all the people who have participated in this massacre and the abuse to these animals will go to hell for all entirety, be sure of that.
Stop this abuse and this horrible crime. Bring these criminals to justice, have them hanged.
Boycoot Turkey.
I pray to God that he will punish all of you that have been involved in animal cruelty. YOu will be treated the same, just wait and se. This will be shared with the world and you will not have any time to regret what you have done because a hurricane is coming your way to destroy all of what you are doing. The only once saved will be the animals and the people who is working to save them and we are all here to support them and make this happend. Be sure of that. We will be there behind all of the people in Turkey who is helping to stop this criminal act.
I say hang these bastard.
I emailed the mayor a couple of days ago – didn’t bounce back luckily. Told him the world was watching and that if Turkey wants to join the EU, then they must clean up their act damn quick.
Any good Muslim will tell you that the Prophet speaks highly of animals in the Koran and demans respect for them.
What a disgrace.
WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT WHAT THE DAMN COUNTRY LOOKS LIKE! NO ONE HAS A MONOPOLY ON ANIMAL CRUELTY IN THIS DAY AND AGE! TURKISH CITIZENS NEED TO MOBILIZE, SWALLOW THEIR FOOLISH AND BIZARRE PRIDE, AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST THESE HORRORS AGAINST ANIMALS IN THEIR COUNTRY! ANIMAL CRUELTY KNOWS NO BORDERS…..NEITHER DOES COMPASSION. TURKISH ANIMAL LOVERS AND ADVOCATES, SPEAK OUT AGAINST THIS, ACT OUT AGAINST THIS, AND CREATE BETTER LIVES FOR THESE INNOCENT CREATURES!
“IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.”
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, BLACK PANTHER
“IT IS OUR COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND NURTURE THE GLOBAL FAMILY, TO SUPPORT ITS WEAKER MEMBERS, AND TO PRESERVE AND TEND TO THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE ALL LIVE.”
HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA, SPIRITUAL MASTER AND LEADER
“ALL THAT IS NEEDED FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH IS FOR A FEW GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING.” EDMUND BURKE, BRITISH POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER
“THE BUDDHA TEACHES THE TRIPLE TRUTH TO ALL: A GENEROUS HEART, KIND SPEECH, AND A LIFE OF SERVICE AND COMPASSION ARE THE THINGS THAT RENEW HUMANITY.” BUDDHA
SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHAME ON YOU AS A COUNTRY THAT WANTS TO BECOME PART OF THE EU…..THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD HELP!!!
FOR A COUNTRY THAT IS wanting TO IMPRESS THE WESTERN WORLD…..YOU ARE A DISGRACE!!!!!!
There are clearly two types of human beings….. humans and detritus……This is so inhumane that I cannot find a word to describe your category of life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is beyond the realms of human behaviour….you are the monsters of this story….cruelty is a despicable act and, be aware that we ALL know what is happening……we shall never enter your country again, and be assured that we shall all be supporting the campaigns against this inhumane practice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SHAME ON YOU TURKEY….SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do they kill this poor animals/dogs?
What happend to thay beige dog,the first on this side? He is laying on the floor in and blood comes out his mouth? Is he dead? Please give me an anser. Thank you. And how do the Turkey dog-killer kill the poor animals? With knifes,with gas,or…..? I can’t believe it what they do to that poor poor animals!