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
Iran, UK foreign ministers in rare direct contact
- A UK government source said Cooper “emphasized the need for a diplomatic solution on Iran’s nuclear program and raised a number of other issues”
TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has spoken by phone with his British counterpart Yvette Cooper, an Iranian foreign ministry statement said on Saturday, in a rare case of direct contact between the two countries.
The ministry said that in Friday’s call the ministers “stressed the need to continue consultations at various levels to strengthen mutual understanding and pursue issues of mutual interest.”
A UK government source said Cooper “emphasized the need for a diplomatic solution on Iran’s nuclear program and raised a number of other issues.”
The source in London said Cooper raised the case of Lindsay and Craig Foreman, a British couple detained in Iran for nearly a year on suspicion of espionage.
The Iranian ministry statement did not mention the case of the two Britons.
It said Araghchi criticized “the irresponsible approach of the three European countries toward the Iranian nuclear issue,” referring to Britain, France and Germany.
The three countries at the end of September initiated the
reinstatement of UN sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear program.
The Foremans, both in their early fifties, were seized in January as they passed through Kerman, in central Iran, while on a round-the-world motorbike trip.
Iran accuses the couple of entering the country pretending to be tourists so as to gather information for foreign intelligence services, an allegation the couple’s family rejects.
Before Friday’s call, the last exchange between the two ministers was in October.
