Animal Rights Watch Committee
Electric vehicles to be used instead of carriages in Princes’ Islands
Following the killing of 81 horses due to the outbreak of glanders in Büyükada, the largest of Istanbul's nine Princes' Islands, İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu said that number of horse-drawn carriages in Adalar district would be reduced and that only 35 carriages would continue to be used as "symbols" of the island.
Use with carriages shortening horses' life expectancy by 90 percent: Report
Horses that are used to pull carriages in places like Istanbul's Prince Islands have an average life expectancy of just two years rather than the standard 20, according to a report from an animal rights group, Turkish news portal Bianet has reported.