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Called simply the Turkish cat at this point, [7] the name was changed in 1979 in the UK (1985 in the US) to Turkish Van [2] [8] to better distance the breed from the Turkish Angora cat (originally called simply Angora, [1]: 35 an old spelling of Ankara). The Turkish Van began to be imported into America in the 1970s.
The Van region has a large Kurdish population, and Van cats have been referred to as "Kurdish cats" [34] or the "Kurdish Van cat", and made a symbol of Kurdistan in Kurdish nationalist circles. [35] Some media sources [ 36 ] reported that Turkish soldiers poisoned about 200 Van cats, but this was a provocation against Turkish army.
Turkish random-bred cats were grouped with Israeli random-bred cats, while the Turkish Van was grouped with Egyptian random-bred cats. [14] However, the UC Davis studied only American cat fancy registered Angoras rather than the "true" Turkish Angora or Ankara Kedisi directly from Turkey, and especially from the Ankara Zoo.
Turkish Van cat may refer to: Van cat , a landrace of domestic cats native to the Lake Van area of present-day Turkey, and of cultural significance to Turks, Armenians and Kurds Turkish Van , a British-developed formal breed of domestic cats, based on stock obtained from various places in Turkey
Van cat, a landrace (or "natural breed") of mostly free-roaming domestic cats in the Lake Van region of Turkey, believed by some to be ancestral to the Turkish Van Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Turkish cat .
A Turkish Van may have blue or amber eyes, or be odd-eyed (having one eye of each colour). The breed was first recognised as such by a breeder/fancier organisation, the UK-based Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF), in 1969, under the name Turkish cat. It was later renamed Turkish Van to better distinguish it from the Turkish Angora breed.
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Similar threats to the Van cat have impelled the Turkish government to hastily set up an official breeding programme to save it in a more pure form than the weakly related Turkish Van and Turkish Angora standardised breeds which bear little resemblance to the landrace feral populations of Van city and the Lake Van area.