When I first moved to Istanbul in 2010, knowing almost no one and grappling with an unfamiliar language, it was the local street dogs who first drew me into my new life. Chico, an elderly alsatian, and Herkül, a labrador mongrel, lived on a corner near my apartment where they watched life pass by with a vigilant serenity.
Locals fed them and some even clubbed together to pay the dogs’ vet
