ANKARA - The Parliamentary Domestic Affairs Commission adopted on Wednesday Animal Protection Draft Law including legal arrangements about animal rights.
Under the draft law, drivers who hit and injure an animal, are obliged to take the animal to a nearby veterinarian and to undertake all expenses of the medical treatment.
Drivers will also be obliged to take all kinds of measures not to hit and kill animals with their vehicles.
Under the draft, torture and maltreatment against animals will be banned. No one can beat animal or let them to starve. Sexual intercourse with animal is also banned.
Those who commit crimes against animals such as torture, maltreatment and sexual intercourse will be sentenced to imprisonment.
In cases where it is necessary to kill an animal, methods which causes less pain will be preferred. Only a veterinarian will be allowed to kill an animal.
The draft bans killing of animals except for outbreak of epidemics. Those who kill animals, will be punished seriously.
Under the law, animals cannot be trained through methods that will cause them suffer or depress unnecessarily.
No one will be allowed to train an animal for acts of violence and to force them to fight with each other.
According to the law, animals cannot be killed by boiling, burning, drowning, applying electricity or breaking their necks.
Provincial animal protection boards will be formed in each provinces under the chairmanship of deputy governors.
Also, Turkish Animal Protection Foundation will be established.