 James Kumarasamy in Paris. To Turkey now, where for decades street dogs have been a fixture of life in almost every city. But as the canine population has swelled to what the government says totals around 4 million, their presence, which sometimes results in some harrowing attacks, have fiercely divided society. And it's forcing members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, to work on new legislation to take dogs off the street.