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Turkish animal rights activists on Friday raised alarm about stray animals found dead at a shelter in the country’s west, more than two months after a controversial law was passed that paved the way for the mass culling of stray dogs. There have been countrywide protests against the law. It allows dogs classified by veterinarians as sick or aggressive, or otherwise pose a danger to public health, to be put to sleep. Dead dogs and cats were found in a container at a shelter in Gebze district of the western province Kocaeli, near Istanbul, local animal rights group Haytap said on social media. H…

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