►The Turkish Van is a semilonghaired breed of domestic cat, which was developed in Turkey from a selection of cats obtained from various cities of modern Turkey, especially Southeast Turkey. A Turkish Van may have blue or amber eyes, or be oddeyed (having one eye of each colour). The breed has been claimed to be descended from the landrace of usually allwhite Van cats, mostly found near Lake Van, though one of the two original breeders' own writings indicate clearly that none of the breed's foundation cats came from the Van area.

Then called the Turkish Cat, the breed was first recognised as such by a breeder/fancier organisation, the UKbased Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF), in 1969. It was later renamed "Turkish Van" to better distinguish it from the Turkish Angora breed. The term "Turkish Vankedisi" is used by some organisations as a name for allwhite specimens of the formal Turkish Van breed, nomenclature easily confused with the Van kedisi landrace cats, which are also often allwhite.

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