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A woman strokes a stray dog in front of Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, on August 23, 2022. As indelible to Istanbul as its mosques, 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 – dogs and cats both – darting between people and lounging on public squares jumps out at most visitors to Turkey's ancient cultural capital. (Photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP Photo)
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