ISTANBUL: Thousands of protesters rallied in Istanbul Sunday in outrage at the Turkish government's proposals to put down stray dogs, yelling: 'No to the massacre!'Bearing photographs of imploring puppy-dog eyes on their T-shirts and placards, demonstrators rallied on Yenikapi square on the European side of the city.
ISTANBUL: Thousands of protesters rallied in Istanbul Sunday in outrage at the Turkish government's proposals to put down stray dogs, yelling: 'No to the massacre!'Bearing photographs of imploring puppy-dog eyes on their T-shirts and placards, demonstrators rallied on Yenikapi square on the European side of the city.The government has drawn up legislation to capture and sterilize strays, before putting them down if they are not adopted within 30 days.
It is classified as a 'high-risk' country for rabies by the World Health Organization.The government says dogs caused 3,544 road accidents over the past five years, killing 55 people and injuring more than 5,000.'We have a problem with stray dogs that does not exist in any developed country,' Erdogan said last week.
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