Turkey’s Prince’s Islands to Replace Carriage Horses with Battery Operated Electric Carriages
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FROM Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages
January 2020

More regulations do not work. A ban is the only solution!

Turkey - Prince's Islands - horse carriages will soon be history...

Recently, we reported on the desperate situation for horses in the Prince's Islands off the coast of Istanbul. For years, there have been reports of horse cruelty on the islands and most recently many horses were killed due to Glanders disease. We reported about the activists and asked that you sign a petition.

It seems that government officials have been listening.

Recently published article:

Electric carriages to replace horse-drawn carriages in Istanbul islands

The mayor of Istanbul’s Princes' Islands (Adalar), announced on Friday that all horse-drawn carriages in the islands will be replaced by electric cars, Evrensel newspaper reported.

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality decided this week to buy registered horse-drawn carriage plates and the horses in Adalar district. The Municipality Assembly unanimously approved paying 300,000 lira ($51,000) per each registered carriage plate and 4,000 lira ($680) for each horse.

The animal rights activists, who started staging protests last month after 81 horses working on the islands were killed and buried due to glanders, have ended their demonstrations after the municipality’s decision, Evrensel said.

Istanbul's governor previously announced a three-month ban on the carriage rides citing recent horse deaths due to glanders, a fatal respiratory disease.
“The horses will be moved to a special location. Illegal stables will be demolished,” mayor Erdem Gül told Evrensel.

Hıdır Ünal, the chairman of the Chamber of Carriages, told Turkish service of Russian state-run Sputnik that each plate owner or one person from each family was told that the carriages would be hired by the municipality subsidiaries.Hundreds of horses have been killed in Adalar, an archipelago off the coast of Istanbul, since a glanders outbreak began in 2017.

BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ACTIVISTS IN TURKEY WHO CARRIED ON THIS CAMPAIGN FOR YEARS! THEY JOIN THE RANKS OF THE MONTREAL ACTIVISTS WHO WERE ALSO SUCCESSFUL! 

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