Turkey border

Our team counts the EU livestock trucks leaving No Man's Land an entering Turkey. Sometimes we cannot check the animals on board as they do not stop to do their import-customs in Kapikule but continue driving past. They will do their customs import taxes somewhere else in Turkey, at custom offices in Istanbul or Ankara, meaning again long waits for the … [Read more...] about Day 3: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border

Today our teams were busy all morning at Petline station, inspecting trucks with animals from various countries throughout the EU. On board were pregnant heifers, fattening calves, slaughterbulls. We again find dirty water troughs, extremely thirsty cattle desperate for water, and dead animals. There is not enough space to unload all the animals so most of them are … [Read more...] about Day 2: Inspection of EU livestock trucks at the Turkish border

Today a team of inspectors from Eyes on Animals and AWF|TBS arrived in Instanbul (Turkey) and drove to Kapikule, at the Bulgarian/Turkish border. We are going to inspect livestock trucks bringing in animals from the EU to Turkey. While driving along the highway from Istanbul to Kapikule we observed 22 EU-platted livestock trucks passing us in the other direction, all … [Read more...] about Day 1: Inspection of EU livestock trucks at the Turkey border