A sculpture created in memory of “Tombili,” a portly cat who became a social media phenomenon after being photographed posing on a sidewalk in Istanbul’s Ziverbey neighborhood, was inaugurated on Oct. 4, World Animal Day.
Following a Change.org campaign demanding that Kadıköy Municipality erect a commemorative sculpture of Tombili, who died in August, sculptor Seval Şahin voluntarily erected the sculpture demonstrating Tombili’s iconic pose on the sidewalk.
The sculpture inaugurated in the same place where the photo was taken at 1 p.m. on World Animal Day.
Kadıköy Deputy Mayor Başar Necipoğlu said in the opening ceremony that 17,000 people on social media had demanded a sculpture for Tombili.
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Şenol Özbakan, a former deck-man who adopts abandoned golden retriever dogs in the western province of Muğla’s Bodrum district, has thousands of followers on his social media accounts thanks to his “Golden Gang.”
The 56-year-old Özbakan, who lives with his 13 dogs in his old minibus parked in Bodrum’s industrial site, draws attention for his life.
Özbakan, who has been living with dogs for a long time because of his love for animals and adopts animals abandoned on the streets, takes care of his dogs by himself.
While strolling the streets with his 13 dogs attached to each other with leashes and swimming with them at Bodrum Beach, Özbakan draws great interest from local and foreign tourists, who want to take photograph with his dogs.
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