She give her life for the stray animals , the municipality " reward " her with a FINE .

To: Mr Adem Murat Yücel  - Mayor of Alanya - baskan@alanya.bel.tr Mr Kenan Ersoy - President of Alanya Municipality Veteriner Department - veterinerlik@alanya.bel.tr Mr Menderes Türel – Mayor of Antalya – ozelkalem@antalya.bel.tr Mr Kutbettin Arzu - Minister of T.C. Gida Tarim ve Hayvancilik BakanliIği - tarimbilgi@tarim.gov.tr

PROTEST !!!!!

Instead of helping the animal lover with her huge work saving the street dogs the municipality give her a fine! We are now demanding a change and that the fine to Mrs Tulay are withdrawn. Mrs. Tulay Avci have been taking care of Alanyas street animals since 2002. Over the years, Mrs. Tulay has fought for animal rights, and we have seen a number of improvements, thanks to her.

She always working very hard for animal rights and animal welfare and doing the best she can under the very difficult circumstances. We would even be able to say that she personally taken greater responsebility for the strays than Alanya Municipality and Alanya Municipal Veterinary Department has done during the years. Neither Alanya Municipality or Alanya Municipal Veterinary department are helping her, but of course they all knows the hard work she is doing.

Alanya has a large number of animal lovers, both domestic and foreign citizens all over the world who support Mrs. Tulay in her work through different networks. And we are now raising our voices and protest against the treatment that Alanya Municipality and Alanya Municipal Veterinary Department gives to Mrs.Tulay.

Instead of give Mrs. Tulay support and help with the strays, the municipality choose to give Tulay a fine at 7323 tl (turkish lira).

For many years Alanya Municipality and Alanya Municipal Veterinary Department have failed with the supervision of Alanya strays, many dogs have been poisoned, died in bad condition after municipal done the castration because of an overdose of anesthesia and lack of supervision after surgery, dogs are thrown right back out on the street with infectious in the body, and operations wound has fractured. Mrs. Tulay has over the past year protested and complained for a change and want an improvement for the strays in Alanya and that Alanya Municipality should take more responsebility.

Several steps have been made by the municipality to improve the dogs' situation, but many of these measures have proved to be just an action from Alanya Municipality to be able to show up them self’s as an animal friendly city to the residents and tourists.

Every year when summer comes municipality collect dogs from the street and dump them in the forest, many at a garbage dump area, without food, water and care. The dogs are living in a terrible conditions, where they get sick, starve, die of thirst, and are hit by the municipality's large trucks or being bitten to death of each other due of starvation. Many of the dogs are not even castrated when they are being dump. Several litters of puppies are found regularly when visiting the area, and Mrs. Tulay brought puppies that were in danger of survive to her home in Alanya and she have now been giving a fine from Alanya Municipality and Alanya Municipal Veterinary Department, because she had to many dogs at her home, many of them ready to go abroad, and because the location is not correct for “dog shelter similar activities” in the area of Alanya.

Both Alanya Municipality and Alanya Municipal Veterinary Department has known for years that she is doing activities like this, without any complaints, instead they have awarded her with diploma for her good work.

Mrs. Tulay take care of the Municipality dogs in the best way as circumstances permit, she ensures that they receive medical attention, get castrated, get food, water, love, and she also works actively to ensure that the dogs will be adopted through a network with several foreign animals groups and Turkish animal groups. Mrs. Tulay prepares the dogs to go abroad by acquiring international passport and chip , vaccinations, and takes care of the administrative so they will be ready to go abroad when owner are found.

The protest is made by worldwide supporters of Mrs. Tulay Avci and we are now demanding that Alanya Municipality and Alanya Municipal Veterinary department shall withdraw the fine of 7323 tl, they give to Mrs.Tulay Avci and instead start to give her more support and help!

We also want to make a protest to Alanya Municipality and Alanya Municipal Veterinary department because of they closing the dog shelter in Demirtaş before closing time, the dog shelter in Demirtaş was closed on World Animal Wellfair Day October 4th 2015, when a large group of animal lovers come to visit the animal shelter. The dogs was without food, water and supervision.

Please copy or forward the letter and send it as a support for Mrs. Tulay and Alanyas strays. To: Mr Adem Murat Yücel - Mayor of Alanya - baskan@alanya.bel.tr Mr Kenan Ersoy - President of Alanya Municipality Veteriner Department - veterinerlik@alanya.bel.tr Mr Menderes Türel – Mayor of Antalya - ozelkalem@antalya.bel.tr Mr Kutbettin Arzu - Minister of T.C. Gida Tarim ve Hayvancilik BakanliIği - tarimbilgi@tarim.gov.tr For contact: Liss Markussen Tel: +4528943925 Email: facille@live.