Izmir, Turkey - Wrestling match

A wrestling match between African and a Turkish professional wrestlers at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - posted from the Russian Post office to Lyon from Smyrna by a French tourist! Yagli gures (Turkish wrestling) is the Turkish national sport. It is commonly known as oil wrestling (sometimes as grease wrestling) because the wrestlers douse themselves with olive oil. It is related to Uzbek Kurash, Tuvan Khuresh and to Tatar Koras. The wrestlers, known as pehlivan (from Persian meaning hero or champion') wear a type of hand-stitched lederhosen called kisbet (sometimes kispet), which were traditionally made of water buffalo hide, but now also of calf leather

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