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These regulations, though tolerably well enforced in the 

 neighbourhood of the capital, are generally little heeded by 

 sportsmen in most of the provinces. 



Game of every description is- considered public property 

 throughout the land, and may therefore be pursued and 

 killed by anybody, provided he be furnished with a " teskere," 

 or licence, for carrying a gun, with which he must annually 

 provide himself at the opening of the shooting season, 

 beginning on the 1st of August and ending on the 31st of 

 March. 



In virtue of this " teskere " all sportsmen acquire a right, 

 already tacitly recognized, of shooting on any proprietor's 

 land, as well as on crown lands. Shooting in the vicinity of 

 the Sultan's kiosks, palaces, hospitals, barracks, and powder- 

 magazines, is prohibited by the above-mentioned police 

 regulations. 



No laws of trespass exist, but the law forbids any person 

 from entering a garden or field which may be surrounded by 

 a stone wall. 



Game is not preserved in Turkey. 



DENMARK. 



The particular birds and animals whose protection is 

 a main cause of English game law discussions are seldom 

 found here. It is said that there are no pheasants in 

 Denmark, except in the king's preserves of Amack and 

 Klampenborg ; hares are very scarce, and rabbits are almost 

 unknown. 



Under these circumstances it would be useless to analyze 

 the Danish game laws in detail. 



The Danish " Yildt " has a wider meaning than our word 

 "game." The law protects not only the nobler animals 

 and birds which may be called " wild," but even such lower 

 species as foxes, badgers, otters, martens, polecats, fieldfares, 

 curie ws> redshanks. 



