yillik YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2687-5012 2687-5691 Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı Kültür ve Sanat İşletmesi 10.53979/yillik.2022.5 Urban Policy Kentsel Politika A Compassionate Correspondence: On the Humane Killing of Street Dogs in Istanbul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3189-5164 Yıldırım Mine KADİR HAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ 12 31 2022 4 83 88 06 13 2022 Copyright © 2012, YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2012 YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies

In lieu of an abstract:Located in the Istanbul Research Institute Library archives, this original autographed document is a typewritten letter from Nazım Kıbrızlı, the president of the Turkish Society for the Protection of Animals (Türkiye Hayvanları Koruma Cemiyeti) throughout the 1940s.1 It is a reader’s letter directly addressed to Fikret Adil (1901–1973), a prominent figure in Istanbul’s cultural milieu from the early republican period onward.

 Istanbul animal history human-animal relations