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🇹🇷 Türkiye

1 in 86 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

3 million 🎲 no separate owned-cat figure; SoPH 12.87M cats+dogs

street

4 million 🎲 SoPH ~6.04M stray cats+dogs, unverified; Istanbul >160,000 (City Hall 2026) is real

Share of the world’s cats

1.2% 🎲

Lifespan in the data

9.7 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

50% / 25% 🎲 Istanbul sterilised >43,000 last year (real) — share sim

Kept indoors

30% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a street cat38%
• a cat from an ordinary home21%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter13%
• a cat from a poor household8.6%
• a cat from a wealthy home7.7%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat6.9%
• a show-cattery cat3.4%
• a backyard-bred kitten1.7%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: no strong belief
• Mosque cats: fed and looked after

Laws and policies

• Law 7527 (stray dogs) — Municipalities must collect stray dogs · aimed at dogs; cats largely untouched (unverified). 📎 www.oipa.org
• Istanbul cat neutering — Istanbul sterilised >43,000 cats last year (12× 2015). 📎 turkishminute.com

Help real cats in Türkiye

• HAYTAP Animal Rights Federation — Animal rights federation; legal action for street animals haytap.org
• Help A Stray Cat — Rescue, neutering and rehoming of Istanbul street cats www.helpastraycat.org
• Kadikoy cat neutering — Online booking, 1 cat per slot, fee not stated on page eybs.kadikoy.bel.tr

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