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Kırkpınar

UNESCO Intangible Heritage Event: Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling 2014

2014-05-03 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Courtesy Kırkpınar Yağlı Güreşleri / KIRKPINAR Oil Wrestling

Coming June 29th to July 5th, a 700 year old tradition is relived and reinvented at Edirne, Turkey. The Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling 2014 event will a week long manly man battle for leather clad, oil drenched supremacy.

Tags: Kırkpınar, sports events, Turkey events, Turkey sports, Turkey Travel, wrestling

Turkey Eyes Three UNESCO Intangible Heritage Spots

2010-11-15 by Mihaela Lica Butler

kırkpınar oil wrestling

These are: the Kırkpınar oil wrestling festival, the Semah, Alevi-Bektaşi ritual and the traditional Sohbet meetings.

Tags: Alevi-Bektaşi, Kırkpınar, Kırkpınar oil wrestling festival, Semah, Sohbet




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