A Devastating Loss: Our Shelter and Everything We Built
What happened to us in Ankara is something we are still struggling to put into words.
A huge area of green land in Ankara was deliberately set on fire. We saw the man responsible burning the area on video. The fire destroyed the land where we had been carrying out our work — including our dog shelter and the new fencing we had been building.
Everything is gone.
The shelter. The fencing. The infrastructure. The place where we cared for animals and planned their future. Years of work, countless hours, our financial resources, and the land itself have been lost.
But what hurts most is what that place represented.
We had a vision: to establish the first safe shelter in Turkey specifically designed to provide protection and a pathway to a better future for dogs, including international adoptions.
It was meant to be a place where abandoned and vulnerable dogs could finally be safe. A place where they could receive veterinary care, recover, be loved, and — when possible — find families in Turkey or abroad.
We were building that future.
And someone burned it down.
We lost an enormous amount financially, but the real loss cannot be measured in money. We lost a place that was supposed to save lives.
Yet we refuse to let this fire destroy our purpose.
The shelter may be gone. Our commitment is not.
