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Following a ban of horse-drawn carriages in the Princes' Islands, an archipelago of nine islands off the coast of Istanbul, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality bought nearly 1200 horses and rehomed over 800 last year.

A homeless man in Istanbul was found dead at a bus stop in the Beyoğlu district on the morning of Jan. 27 amid a cold snap that has prompted municipal authorities to mobilize in a bid to rescue those without shelter from the streets, daily Hürriyet has reported.