Showing posts with label istanbul 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label istanbul 2012. Show all posts

Jul 10, 2012

Street Portraits from Istanbul in July 2012





















July 9th 2012 Eminonu-Sirkeci-Karakoy areas in Istanbul
July 10th 2012 Suleymaniye Mosque,Suleymaniye district,Sultanahmet district,Sirkeci,Karakoy areas
 enjoy it

May 6, 2012

Hıdırellez Festival May 5th 2012







































Hıdırellez Festivali Ahırkapı,Istanbul 2012
enjoyed very much with friends drinking, dancing, singing

here are the few info from wikipedia regarding the festival:)
Hıdırellez or Hıdrellez (Turkish: Hıdrellez or Hıdırellez, Azerbaijani: Xıdır İlyas or Xıdır Nəbi, Crimean Tatar: Hıdırlez, Romani language: Ederlezi) is celebrated as the day on which Prophets Hızır (Al-Khidr) and Ilyas (Elijah) met on the earth.[1] Hıdırellez starts on May 5 night and falls on May 6 in the Gregorian calendar and April 23 in the Julian calendar. It is celebrated in Turkey [2] and throughout the Turkic world. It celebrates the arrival of spring and is a religious holiday for the Alevi as well. Đurđevdan is the Christian variety of this spring festival throughout the Balkans, notably areas which had become under the control of the Ottoman Empire by the end of the 16th century.