Life in Turkey reflects a cultural diversity where the most current present coexists with centuries-old traditions.
KURBAN BAYRAMI means Feast of Sacrifice, it is celebrated by Muslims all over the world, 2 months and 10 days after the end of RAMADAN. For those who do not yet know RAMADAN: In Turkish "RAMAZAN" is a fast that takes place in the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, in the middle of which the practitioners or non-practitioners of the required age. Do not have to eat, drink, smoke or maintain sexual relaxation, from dawn to sunset for 1 month.It is a holy month that is one of the five pillars of Islam.
Şeker Bayramı : (feast of rupture) is a feast marking the breaking of the fast of the month of RAMADAN, it is celebrated the first day of the month of SHAWWAL. During the first three days the families make cordial visits, to eat more often. It begins with a visit to the mosque for the first morning prayer. All traders sell candies, chocolates, baklava, Turkish delight per kilo. That will be redistributed to children who go door to door to receive sweets following a hand fuck.
Before each departure of a third party, it is habitually by tradition and a little by superstition, to throw water behind the person, or his vehicle, which is supposed to protect him from all worries: The person named for this act is often the mother, who will say aloud by throwing water on the ground behind the car: Go like water, come back like water.
