https://vo.rs/tags/turkey/Latest from the Turkey desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:27:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/kirkpinar-oil-wrestling-turkeys-slippery-championship/<p>Later this July, close to a thousand wrestlers coated head to waist in olive oil will gather on a field outside Edirne, in Turkish Thrace, for a tournament that Ottoman court records place at 1362 without a serious break since. Guinness World Records has accepted that lineage and credits Kırkpınar as the oldest continuously run sporting competition anywhere on Earth. Nothing else on this desk&rsquo;s beat comes close to that kind of age, and the strangeness only compounds once you understand what actually happens on the field.</p>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:27:00 +0000