After a natural disaster, who cares for the animals? Meet Mehmet Tığoğlu.
by Sara Miller Llana
Jul 10, 2023
3 minutes
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The dog’s golden coat should be shiny. It should be soft. But it’s matted and slicked with what turns out to be engine oil.
Mehmet Gürkan Tığoğlu arrives on the scene – the perimeter of a “container city” erected after the devastating earthquake Feb. 6 that leveled the ancient city of Antakya in southern Turkey.
He had received a call – one of dozens that make his phone buzz daily – about a dog in distress. So he suited up in his blue uniform for Haytap, the name of the Turkish animal rescue organization he’s
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