Other festivities consist of:
» camel-wrestling in mid-January, at village of Selçuk, south of İzmir, and
» National Sovereignty Day, April 23, a big holiday to celebrate the first meeting of the republican parliament in 1920. Celebrations    abound in summer: there's a sloppy
» Oiled wrestling celebration in early June at Sarayiçi, near Edirne; the country
» Kafkasör Festival near Artvin in northeastern Turkey in the 3rd week of June;
» International İstanbul Festival of the Arts (late June to mid-July); Bursa's
» Folklore and Music Festival in mid-July and Diyarbakır's
» Watermelon celebration in mid or late September. The whole country stops, just for a moment, at 09:05 November 10, the time of    Atatürk's death in 1938.

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