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    The Great Dog Massacre in late Ottoman İstanbul: The history of “Hayırsız Ada”
    (Bilkent University, 2020) Abdullazade, Sama; Gasimova, Minaya; Mammadlı, Shahla; Mukhtarov, Ziya; Baghirov, Javid; Ghasemlou, Kimya
    In this paper, the exile of 80 000 street dogs of Istanbul to Sivriada in 1910, later known as “Hayırsız Ada”, will be studied from different aspects. There were multiple failed attempts at collecting dogs from Istanbul streets until 1910 due to the local pressure. However, in 1910, street dogs in the Ottoman Empire were being collected by the municipality to be sold to France, which ended up with France withdrawing from the contract. As a result, the dogs were left to their fate in Sivriada. This paper carefully analyzes the history of actions that led up to the banishment of the dogs, the condition of the dogs in Sivriada, the reaction after the dogs died, and how this act is still being remembered today.