--- title: G-20 Summit: Cats Wander on Stage in Turkey description: A new spin on the classic cat video canonical: https://time.com/4116602/cats-crash-g-20-summit/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-17T19:57:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:06:32.142Z og:title: Cats Casually Wander Onstage at G-20 Summit og:description: A brief moment of levity during an otherwise intense event og:url: https://time.com/4116602/cats-crash-g-20-summit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cats Casually Wander Onstage at G-20 Summit twitter:description: A brief moment of levity during an otherwise intense event twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Cats Casually Wander Onstage at G-20 Summit ## Video: Inside New York's First Cat Cafe [Watch (HLS stream): Inside New York's First Cat Cafe](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8) (1:49)  _Published 2014-12-12. Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 17, 2015 7:57 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 17, 2015 7:57 PM UTC World leaders gathered in Turkey this week for the latest G-20 summit to discuss important economic issues. Naturally, then, security was tight—but not tight enough to keep out three stray cats who managed to wander directly onto the main stage area. Clearly, these felines were not intimidated by global leaders like Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin. And really, why should they be? We all know cats will one day rule this world. Look, they’re just wandering around and meowing in front of the flags of the most powerful nations in the world. And nobody stops them. This is not the first time we’ve seen cats wander onstage at an inopportune moment. Remember those cats who [crashed a classical music concert ](http://time.com/3992519/cat-stage-concert/)in Beirut? G-20 Summit: Cats Wander on Stage in Turkey ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4116602/cats-crash-g-20-summit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4116602/cats-crash-g-20-summit/"},"headline":"Cats Casually Wander Onstage at G-20 Summit","datePublished":"2015-11-17T19:57:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:06:32.142Z","description":"A brief moment of levity during an otherwise intense event","url":"https://time.com/4116602/cats-crash-g-20-summit/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4116602/cats-crash-g-20-summit/","name":"Cats Casually Wander Onstage at G-20 Summit"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside New York's First Cat Cafe","description":"Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0MiiFeak/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-12T19:30:27.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4116602/cats-crash-g-20-summit/","duration":"PT1M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4116602/cats-crash-g-20-summit/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```