Turkey’s notoriously politicized courts can show compassion after all. That, at any rate, is what animal lovers may have deduced from the 1st Criminal Court of Peace in Ankara’s decision to block a website and app that has been accused of complicity in the deaths of stray dogs.
The ruling followed a legal challenge that claimed Havrita was being used to track the animals and kill them. Havrita allows users to post photos and pin the whereabouts of stray canines.
