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Turkey’s main opposition party appealed to the country’s Constitutional Court on Thursday to cancel a controversial law that paves the way for the mass culling of stray dogs. The law violates animal rights and international treaties, Republican People’s Party (CHP) lawmaker Gökhan Günaydin wrote on X. The CHP, which won the most mayoral posts in the country in the March local elections, said earlier it would not implement the law. At the end of July, despite massive protests, the Turkish parliament passed the law that allows for the killing of stray dogs in certain cases. The amendments to an …

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