Four years ago, a documentary about the street cats of Istanbul came out called “Kedi.” According to the film’s Turkish-born director Ceyda Torun, the cats are a distinctive feature of the city, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently came across an article on CNN about a dog in Istanbul named Boji. Although the story of this public transportation ...

From Turkey last week, via the Frankfurter Zeitung, came news that 20,000 stray dogs had last year been cleared off the streets of Istanbul and killed. Travelers lately returned from Istanbul were ...

Ubiquitous and iconic, Istanbul's street dogs have been swept up in a political storm involving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and an app that helped get them killed. The sheer number of stray animals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boji, an Istanbul street dog rides Kadikoy's historic tram on October 21, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty ...

ISTANBUL (CNN) -- In an unassuming home in a tidy neighborhood of Istanbul, you can hear the occupants long before you see them. They greet you with more warmth and affection than you can take in.

The new documentary to focus on stray dogs' life in Turkey. Zeytin likes to walk through the streets of Istanbul at night, Nazar easily befriends strangers, and Kartal lives on a busy construction ...

Boji is a regular Istanbul commuter, using the city’s public transport systems to get around, sometimes traveling up to 30 kilometers a day using subway trains, ferries, buses and Istanbul’s historic ...

A street dog named Boji has become something of a celebrity in Istanbul, where he travels around the city on its ferries, trams and subway cars. His adventures came to light a couple of months ago, ...