Water buffalo

A public installation by Cooking Sections, launched during the 17th Istanbul Biennial last year, "Wallowland / Çamuralem" reopened in Istanbul and will continue its mission and program in a new location in the Kurtulus neighborhood.
It reinterprets a Muhallebici (a buffalo milk dessert shop) to celebrate the water buffalos and their herders surrounding the city.

The small motorboat chugging through southern Iraq's marshes is similar to those tourists use to explore the vast swamplands, the reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden.

Unidentified suspects have shot seven water buffalos dead, chopped their heads off and stole their bodies in Istanbul's Şile district. 

The owner of the water buffalos, Cengiz Akdeniz, started searching for his animals when they did not return after five days, saying that he released his animals to a meadow for grazing.

In the Black Sea coastal town of Kandıra, only a couple of hours drive from Istanbul, there is the first modern water buffalo (bufala) farm in Turkey where famous Italian cheese such as mozzarella, burrata, ricotta and mascarpone are produced. I had the opportunity to visit this farm with a group of colleagues.

Turkey's water buffalo population has decreased to 100,000 from 1 million in 15 years due to extensive losses in wetlands in Turkey.

Experts say the country's water buffalo stock farming has suffered a huge impact due to degradations in Turkey's wetlands.