Selim can often be spotted surveying his neighbourhood / a stone’s throw away from the Galata tower and down the hill from bustling İstiklal avenue / He looks content his expanding belly and long orange hair neatly combed/
A resident of historic Istanbul he endures with mild distaste the tourists who every day photograph him as he mills about in his shop a handmade leather store called Moria......
I made a love letter to the city and the cats
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Selim is a cat and of course he thinks he owns the neighbourhood/ All of Istanbul its winding hilly roads and back alleys and cafes could be said to belong to its hundreds of thousands of stray felines, symbols of a city steeped in history/
But it is winter now and they begrudgingly have to accept help from the humans who frequently interrupt their naps on the chairs of busy coffeeshops/ As the harsh cold rain and snow of Istanbul draws near winter cat houses pop up all over the city some provided by local municipalities others by citizens............
During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, Pope Innocent VIII condemned cats as evil and thousands of cats were burned. Unfortunately, the widespread killing of cats led to an explosion of the rat population, which exacerbated the effects of the Black Death.
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