Ramadan

[bluelagoon]

Please can someone advise me as to what month/date Ramadan is this year?

I've been told goats and sheep are publicly slaughtered at the end of Ramadan in places like Calis, I don't want to witness this cruel ritual so want to avoid it.

Thanks.

[Highlander]

Hi bluelagoon - can I ask who told you that

[Scunner]

I lived there for 5 years and never once saw anything like that.

[CleopatrasAsp]

What you are thinking of is 'Kurban Bayram' (the feast of sacrifice) which will start around 14th October this year.  It's not a public spectacle, a lot of village families sacrifice the animal of their choice in their backyards and it is done quickly, and with reverence, and a lot more humanely than one might expect in British abattoirs.  I can assure you it's not 'streets running with blood'!!!

[Jim Fraser]

Ramazan (turkish spelling) for 2013 is 9 July - 7 August

The slaughter of animals you mention is another festival called Kurban Bayramı  (Feast of Sacrifice)
this year it starts on October 14th and lasts for approx 4 days.



 

[bewva]

I have been in Turkey a few times during this time, you would have to go out of you way to see it or be invited to such an event by one of the local families.

[ytokgoz]

what you say cruel ritual  is part of our religion!!!so please more respect. thank you

[loz]

I lived there for 5 years and never once saw anything like that.

Really, you should have gone for a walk in the other direction more often ;-)
 But seriously it is very rare in the centre of Calis, the the turkish family living in the old white bungalow opposite the Sunday Market used to carry out this ritual.
The law changed sometime ago approx 2005 whereby the animals had to be taken to a specified location, however, some families of the old school prefer to still carry out the ritual in their own grounds.  Fethiye council set up the site of the Tuesday market as a Kurban Bayram abattoir, at this time the flow of the river from the market to the sea ran red.
It is a traditional custom, respect it and get on with it.

[ytokgoz]

"It is a traditional custom, respect it and get on with it. "

thank you loz

[Scunner]

Really, you should have gone for a walk in the other direction more often ;-)

Very true actually - I know it was common "down the back" in Gunlukbasi as a tradition, a little further back you could visit Catalarik to see the time honoured tradition of someone getting their fingers smashed one at a time with a hammer. In Kus Cenneti land the only local tradition I saw was sticking our dead neighbour out in the street in his coffin so we could all have a look before taking him off for his funeral.

Vive la difference!