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 ...

Yasar Dogu, affectionately known as "the father of Turkish wrestling," is being honored on the 64th anniversary of his passing away. Dogu died of a heart attack in Ankara on Jan. 8, 1961. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 40th International Camel Wrestling Festival was held in Selcuk, part of the Aegean province of Izmir, on Sunday with 152 ...

EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — After a year-long, pandemic-induced hiatus, the sounds of the zurna flute and beating drums again greeted thousands of Turkish wrestling fans who returned to the country’s ...

Two men compete in the Kirkpinar oil wrestling festival in Edirne, Turkey, which will soon celebrate its 651st anniversary.Pari Dukovic The sport of yağlı güreş, or oil wrestling, is at the heart of ...

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 ...

There are few ways to better know a destination than by witnessing its national sport. In Türkiye, this means watching kispet-clad, olive oil-soaked wrestlers (or Pehlivan) grapple for supremacy in a ...

Turkish athletes claimed Saturday 2 gold medals in men's free-style wrestling on the first day of the 41th International Yasar Dogu Tournament held in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Turkey's Yakup Gor ...

It’s not exactly dry humping if you’re lubed up with oil, but close enough. The event is Women’s Turkish Oil Wrestling, and the concept is self-explanatory: Strip down, oil up, get in the rink, wrap ...