DIFFICULTIES

Unfortunately, over the years Miss Czartoryska who had been an early enthusiastic supporter of the Karabas & the AKDC had become angry when she had been refused use of Dr. Steele’s dog in May 1973.  When she purchased a dog Anadol Yali from Dr. Withof-Keus she bred him to the female Mektup (white with colored patches) who had no supporting documentation and a litter was born.

                                                                                        Akkus and Mektup

The pups looked typical and were sold for showing.  When their owners asked for registration document, Miss Czartoryska asked the Committee of the AKDC to assist her to register Mektup, they refused.  Miss Czartoryska then joined the puppy owners into Club members and at the 1976 AGM all Committee members who had refused to assist to register Mektup were voted out of office. 

The new Committee was asked to help to register Mektup.  They considered the pups which appeared typical as being the results of an outcross, and said that after 3 generations the offspring could be considered safe as was usual practice in breeding with an outcross and agreed to help get Mektup registered.  They also compiled a new breed standard without the knowledge of the members.  When Miss Czartoryska & members of the new Committee approached the registration department of the KC they were told that without import papers and quarantine papers no dog from Turkey could be registered.

In order to get these necessary documents when Maketup came in season early 1977, Miss Czartoryska drove her to Turkey .  Dr. Withof-Keus knew of a dog in Ankara bred at the zoo and Miss Czartoryska agreed to use it on Mektup.

When she returned to England with the bitch in whelp, she said the dog in Ankara was too small and she had found a large Cream dog in a village on the outskirts of Ankara that she had used.  She also produced a 5 generation pedigree for Mektup and a named Breeder.

The pups were born.  Seven were noted as born but only 5 were registered.  All of these 5 were Cream to Fawn with some mask.  One of these was bred 18 months later and some of the pups in the litter were White.  Finally Miss Czartoryska confessed that the dog she used in Turkey on Mektup was White.

At the 1979 Annual General Meeting of the AKDC she & her supporters were voted off the Committee of the AKDC and the original Breed Standard was re-instated by a unanimous vote of members.  This Breed Standard was forwarded to the Kennel Club Breed Standard Sub Committee and agreed by them in October 1981. 

Miss Czartoryska was incensed and then formed her own Club for Turkish dogs which she called the Anatolian Karabas Society.  The club started by Miss Czartoryska later changed it’s name to the Anatolian Shepherd Dog Club of Great Britain and was Affiliated to the Anatolian Shepherd Dog Club USA .

In 1980 Miss Czartoryska and some associates went to Turkey and imported from there two females and one male dog.  The two bitches were in whelp.

The new imports.

When the AKDC Committee learned of the three imports, the Chairman and a committee member visited the registrations manager at the KC.  They pointed out that at least two of the animals did not in any way conform to the Breed Standard and urged that they should not be placed on the Karagbash register.  They were told by an officer of the KC that they had received a letter on AKDC headed note paper endorsing the registration of the dogs but he agreed that the names of the officers listed on that paper had not been checked against those sent to the KC with the AKDC returns after the Clubs AGM.  However, the dogs were registered as Karabas.

The male Tarkan was subsequently mated to Mektup and a complete divergence from the Breed Standard was noted the dogs was white with colored markings, had a long soft coat, ears so long as to resemble ears of a spaniel, and in fact simply a large dog.   This dog was exhibited at Leeds Championship Show in 1982 and although he was the only exhibit the judge withheld all prize cards on the grounds that the dog did not conform in any way to the Breed Standard.

After the Leeds Show in 1982, the owner of the dog, a veterinary surgeon, drew up a family tree that he gave to Mr. Robinson.  When the ASDC of GB began to lobby for the Breed Standard to be changed to accommodate their dogs, the AKDC pointed out to the KC that these dogs did not belong on the Karabas register and that the Breed Standard should not be altered because dogs which did not conform to it had been imported and bred from.  Although, they would be happy for the dogs to be given their own register to enable them to be developed as this new Breed.

In June 1982, the AKDC and the ASDC at separate meetings on the same day placed their views before members of the Breed Standard Sub Committee and the Stud Book and Registrations Committee.  The AKDC was told that Breed classes throughout the year would be watched and a decision taken on the evidence given that day and the dogs exhibited during the year.  During that yeas ASD followers exhibited dogs of varying conformation, coat length, and color and the AKDC members continued to exhibit their dogs always Cream to Fawn with Black Mask & short dense coat.