Hayvanların Korunmasında Evrensel Haklar: Hayvanlara Saygı Gösterilmesi Hakkı

Animals, like humans, have joy, pain, pain, fear and other emotions and need to be protected against violence and arbitrary behavior. The essence of animal rights and animal protection is to ensure the comfortable life of animals and the good and appropriate treatment of animals, to ensure that animals are best protected against pain, suffering and suffering, and to prevent all kinds of victimization.

The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights, proclaimed at the UNESCO House in Paris on 15 October 1978, determined the basic principles in the protection of animal rights, and the declaration was reorganized by the Animal Rights Union in 1989, presented to the Director-General of UNESCO in 1990, and announced to the public in the same year. At the beginning of the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights; that life is one, that all living things have a common origin and that species differ in the direction of their evolution, that all living creatures have natural rights and that every animal with a nervous system has its own rights, that the coexistence of species will mean that other animal species' right to life is recognized by human beings, it has been pointed out that people's respect for animals cannot be separated from the respect one person shows to another. At the beginning of the basic principles regarding the protection and comfortable living of animals is that all animals should be born equal and have the right to live. Animals must exist and must remain. All animals should be supported and necessary precautions should be taken to protect, watch over, care for and keep them free from abuse. The basic principle is to care for, feed, house and transport animals in conditions specific to their species. In the transportation of animals, suitable environment and conditions should be provided for their species and characteristics, and animals should be fed and cared for during transportation. It is one of the basic principles for local governments to establish animal shelters and hospitals, to provide care and treatment for animals, and to carry out educational activities in order to protect stray and weakened animals. In order to prevent uncontrolled breeding, the cats and dogs that are kept and kept in communal areas are sterilized by their owners, and those who want to have offspring are obliged to register, look after and distribute the offspring to be born by the municipality. In our country, in the Animal Protection Law No. 5199 of 2004 and the new regulation of 2021, animals were finally given the status of living things and their right to exist was placed on legal foundations. All animals have the right to be respected. Animal rights are an integral part of human rights. For the protection of animals, their rights must be respected, based on a legal basis determined by law. When we focus on the need to protect the rights of animals to be respected and protection of animals, the problem of who will be the interlocutors related to protecting and realizing these rights arises. Who and how will fulfill the obligation to protect the right to respect for animals and animal rights diligently, and who will encourage the right to respect animals? Answering these questions is not easy at all. In our study, as a research method, the regulations and policies related to our research topic were scanned, the quantitative research method was applied, and the content analysis technique was examined.