ANKARA: An animal lover in Türkiye, inspired by her paralyzed father, has built a train out of plastic barrels to give daily rides to the disabled dogs at a shelter outside the country’s capital Ankara.
Buket Ozgunlu, chairwoman of the Association of Paws Holding onto Life, has attached makeshift dog wagons to an all-terrain vehicle to take dogs out every day. She believes that, like people, the dogs need a change of scene and, if they cannot walk, a drive will have to do.
“This is how the idea for the train came up: my father is also paralyzed and disabled. We felt the need to take him out (by car) and make him walk,” Ozgunlu said.
“Then, I said our kids (the dogs) do not see anything, they must want this too because the ones who are disabled are more traumatized, they feel a different intensity of emotions.”
She said the shelter houses 560 dogs rescued from the streets, including 300 who have suffered physically.
“I can say we took all of them from the arms of death,” she said.
Ozgunlu and other shelter workers have painted the plastic barrels in bright colors and plan to add a tarpaulin to provide shade for the dogs to ensure a first-class ride.
Turkiye’s woof express takes disabled dogs on a daily ride
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Turkiye’s woof express takes disabled dogs on a daily ride
- Buket Ozgunlu, chairwoman of the Association of Paws Holding onto Life, has attached makeshift dog wagons to an all-terrain vehicle to take dogs out every day
- The shelter houses 560 dogs rescued from the streets
Syria says 120 Daesh detainees escaped prison; Kurdish website said 1,500 escaped
- The Syrian ministry said Syrian army units and ministry special forces entered Shaddadi following the breakout
CAIRO: Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that about 120 Daesh detainees escaped from Shaddadi prison, after the Kurdish website Rudaw reported that a spokesperson for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Farhad Shami, said around 1,500 Daesh members had escaped.
The Syrian ministry said Syrian army units and ministry special forces entered Shaddadi following the breakout. It said security forces had recaptured 81 of the escapees after search and sweep operations in the town and surrounding areas, with efforts continuing to arrest the remaining fugitives.
Earlier, the Syrian army said “a number of” Daesh militants had escaped a prison that had been under SDF control in the eastern city of Shaddadi, accusing the SDF of releasing them.
After days of fighting with government forces, the SDF agreed on Sunday to withdraw from both Raqqa and Deir Ezzor, two Arab-majority provinces they had controlled for years and the location of Syria’s main oil fields.
