Turkey border

We are joined today by Karen Soeters, director of PiepVandaag and photographer Thomas Schlijper from The Netherlands. They want to make a reportage about the conditions on the ground here that we have been seeing year after year. We are very pleased they want to further expose the problems in the hope that competent authorities and industry will finally take action to … [Read more...] about Day 7: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border

All day livestock trucks from Europe are entering into Turkey . We observe animals coming from Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. We were able to inspect 24 trucks but many more passed by.   One truck we first saw already on the 26.06 is still there. He finally leaves in the evening (after the animals wait two days straight … [Read more...] about Day 6: Inspection live-stock trucks at the Turkeys border

It is not raining anymore and it is getting really hot. A serious problem at Petline is that, like inside the border, there is only one water hose. Because the empty trucks on their way back to Europe are using water to clean their trucks the water pressure for filling up the water tanks on the trucks loaded with live animals is very low which makes the process of giving … [Read more...] about Day 5: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border

In the morning our teams went back to inspect the livestock trucks at Petline. The calves on one truck that had been unloaded yesterday were reloaded, while others from the same company were unloaded. Due to the small size of the outdoor pens, there is no other way to do it- not all animals waiting in Kapikule can get out of the trucks, only a very small percentage. The … [Read more...] about Day 4: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border