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Kafkasör bull wrestling

The summer pasture festival above Artvin in northeastern Turkey, where village bulls wrestle head to head on the meadow.

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Photo: hursitakinci, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cattle at Kafkasör bull wrestling

Each June the Kafkasör plateau above the town of Artvin holds a culture and arts festival whose main event is boğa güreşi, bull wrestling. Two bulls of similar weight are brought face to face and push horn to horn until one turns and leaves the field; it is a contest between the animals, with no matador and no killing. Bulls are raised for it by families of the surrounding villages, and the winners earn their owners great prestige. The festival also brings music, dancing, food stalls and the gathering of people from the high pastures, the yayla, where cattle spend the summer.

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Anatolian BlackThe small native black cattle of the Anatolian highlands.
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Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Bull wrestling" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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