A cat sits at the seaside enjoying the view as the sun dawns in Tekirdağ, Turkey, Jan. 6, 2022.
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A cat sits on an empty table as cafes and restaurants reopen after closing down for months amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 1, 2021.
(Reuters Photo)
A cat is seen on an empty street during the lockdown, May 17, 2020.
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A cat and a dog enjoy the snow that blocked off 71 villages in Sivas, Turkey, Jan. 10, 2022.
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A cat enjoys the miniature building in Antalya, Turkey, Dec. 17, 2021.
(AA Photo)
A young girl feeds a stray cat in the courtyard of a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 20, 2010.
(AP Photo)
A pair of cats enjoy the sun in Yedisu, Bingöl, Turkey, Jan. 10, 2022.
(AA Photo)
The cat "Pamuk" (meaning cotton) strolls through the classroom in Afyon, Turkey, Dec. 30, 2021. The school adopted the cat after they found it exhausted in their school yard.
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A man holds a book as a cat passes by the table and the chair Pope Francis used to write his message after visiting Haghia Sofia, the Byzantine church-turned-mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 29, 2014.
(AP Photo)
Another pair of cats that have been adopted by a school, Dec. 26, 2021. The children race to see the two in the yard to pet and play with them on each break they have.
(IHA Photo)
A cat lays on top of a display in front of a book store in Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 18, 2010.
(AP Photo)
A cat jumps from the advertising board during the UEFA Cup final soccer match between Werder Bremen and Shakthar Donetsk at Şükrü Saraçoğlu stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, May 20, 2009.
(Reuters Photo)
Cats sit in the morning sun, in near-freezing temperatures near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. 24, 2016.
(AP Photo)
Personnel of the Kayseri municipality built up cat houses made out of recycled materials across the city in Turkey, Dec. 27, 2021.
(AA Photo)
Backdropped by the iconic Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, a cat lays on the deserted plaza in Istanbul, Turkey, April 24, 2020, during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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A cat yawns in the normally crowded but now mostly deserted garden outside Sultan Ahmed or Blue Mosque hours after the two-day curfew declared by the government to slow coronavirus spread, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 11, 2020.
(AP Photo)
A man wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of coronavirus caresses Efe, a popular cat living at a taxi station, in Kuğulu Park public garden, in Ankara, Turkey, June 26, 2020.
(AP Photo)
A woman wearing a mask tries to communicate with Efe in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 30, 2020.
(AP Photo)
A cat walks across the red carpet at the entrance for the soccer Champions League draw in Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 26, 2021.
(AP Photo)
A woman holds a cat, in Sille, outside Konya, Turkey, Dec. 18, 2021.
(AP Photo)
A young girl plays with a cat in Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 10, 2021.
(AP Photo)
A cat rests next to a fisherman at the Karakoy promenade in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 6, 2021.
(AP Photo)
The cat "Lolipop" sneaks around the ship he lives on in Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 30, 2021.
(AA Photo)
A cats peaks out of a miniature building in an open air museum in Antalya, Turkey, Dec. 17, 2021.
(AA Photo)
A cat rests on the ruins of the Library of Celsus in the Ancient Greek city of Ephesus in lzmir, Turkey, March 23, 2018.
(Reuters Photo)
A cat enjoying the food given out by staff of Gümuşhane's state hospital, Turkey, Jan. 8, 2022.
(IHA Photo)
Four cats sitting on the public benches during the curfew in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey, March 7, 2021.
(Reuters Photo)
A cat and a dog chill together in Gümüşhane, with the cat first giving a massage to the dog and then sleeping on the canine, Turkey, Dec. 31, 2021.
