🇹🇷Street cats, photographed by the people who live here
The cats of Istanbul
19 cats have been found in Istanbul since 7 July 2026, by six different people who stopped and took a photo.
Cats found19
People finding them6finders in this city
First one7 July 2026the cat that started the list
Most recent7 days ago30 September 2026
The one to know about
Bella
Bella is the one everybody knows: three different people have found Bella on their own, which is what turns a cat into a Chonk.
Every cat found in Istanbul
Each one is a card somebody made by stopping on the pavement. Tap a cat to read what its finder wrote about it.
The ones nobody has met yet
There are more cats in Istanbul than there are on this page, and the next person to walk past one gets to name it. First finder keeps the naming rights, permanently, on a card nobody else can have.
