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MONTH: March 2007

Film to help Turkish street dogs

 

ISTANBUL--"It is with pleasure that we launch the trailer of Ghosts of the City, a documentary explaining the situation of stray dogs in Turkey," e-mailed Spanish activist and film maker Ivan Jiminez to ANIMAL PEOPLE on Valentine's Day 2007.

Ghosts of the City, Jiminez said, explains "the necessity to implement sterilization of both stray animals and house pets, and elaborates on issues such as the status of the dog in the Qu'ran and responsible pet care." Jiminez is involved in efforts to pressure the city of Istanbul into properly fulfilling a national mandate adopted by the Turkish government in 2004 to replace killing dogs with an Animal Birth Control program similar to the one underway in India since 1997. (See page one.)