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**petrarkaponye** · 05-14-2008, 03:54 PM

Stray dogs in Istanbul are a historic problem... Its history goes hand in hand with the history of the republic. During the '60 and the '80s when Turkey had 3 military coups, stray dogs in Istanbul were cited as one of the reasons for the coup, the military regimes of the time promising to eliminate the problem, alas with no results...

Every once in a while, there is a campaign to get rid of them, but usually such plans get axed before they bear fruit...

It was only a matter of time for the Istanbul hounds to get international fame!

05-14-2008, 03:54 PM	#11
petrarkaponye Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	Stray dogs in Istanbul are a historic problem... Its history goes hand in hand with the history of the republic. During the '60 and the '80s when Turkey had 3 military coups, stray dogs in Istanbul were cited as one of the reasons for the coup, the military regimes of the time promising to eliminate the problem, alas with no results... Every once in a while, there is a campaign to get rid of them, but usually such plans get axed before they bear fruit... It was only a matter of time for the Istanbul hounds to get international fame!
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