In its 2,400-year history, the tradition of camel wrestling in Turkey has seen many winners and losers. But owner Ismail Egilmez had reason this year to celebrate a totally new kind of triumph. His ...
Held annually on the country’s Aegean coast, the Selcuk camel-wrestling festival is part of a nomadic legacy rooted in ancient Turkic tribes. Yilmaz Bicak, a camel trainer, tends to an animal before a ...
Irfan Kaplan, a native of Turkey with wrestling abilities that gained him world fame, now quietly lives in West Milford. He cherishes memories of his late brother Hamit Kaplan and the days when they ...
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