Veterinary Faculty

Excavations at the undersea metro construction sites of Yenikapı and Marmaray in Istanbul that were carried out between 2004 and 2014 in Istanbul unearthed cat remains and skeletons along with many other animals dating back to the Byzantine era. Some of these were given to the Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Veterinary Faculty of (IUC).

A two-month-old fawn, which has been found by locals in the western province of Afyonkarahisar after she lost her mother because it was blind, has undergone cataract surgery in the Afyon Kocatepe University (AKU) Veterinary Faculty Health Application and Research Center. 

As part of a project carried out at the Uludağ University campus in the northwestern Turkish province of Bursa, the number of deer increased more than eightfold in 13 years. 

The dean of the university's Veterinary Faculty, Professor Ülgen Günay, said they first started the project in 2004 with the establishment of a special deer-breeding center. 

Kiyaki, an 18-month-old dog of the rare Akasaray Malaklısı breed, the largest canine breed in Anatolia, has had an eye operation.

During the one hour operation, a hernia in Kiyaki’s eye was removed by İbrahim Demirkan, dean professor at the Veterinary Faculty of Aksaray University.