her that municipal workers had taken them away.
She went to Ankara’s largest refuse dump, Mamak, where she found one of the strays with hundreds of other dogs. “They were all dead, stacked in large pits,” she said. “We also found 10 dead puppies in a bound plastic bag. There is a myth among pious Muslims that dogs are unclean.”
Animal rights campaigners who accompanied Miss Isikalp last week said that at least two of the dogs had been sexually abused.
The mayor of Mamak, Gazi Sahin, of the ruling pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party, has denied responsibility.
At least, I think it’s sloppy editing. Maybe the mayor has a history of this sort of thing.
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