The Turkish Van is a semi-long-haired, standardised breed of domestic cat, which was developed in the United Kingdom from a selection of cats obtained from various cities of modern Turkey, especially southeast Turkey.^[1]: 112 The breed is rare,^[2] is one of the larger breeds, and is distinguished by the Van pattern (named after the breed), where the colour is restricted to the head and the tail, and the rest of the cat is white;^[2] this is due to the expression of the piebaldwhite spotting gene, a type of partial leucism.^[3]: 148 A Turkish Van may have blue or amber eyes, or be odd-eyed (having one eye of each colour).

Turkish Van
A Turkish Van with heterochromia.
Other names	Turkish cat (obsolete)
Origin	Turkey (foundation stock), United Kingdom (initial breeding programme)