Do the participants of Turkey's annual Camel Wrestling Festival enjoy it as much as the audience?
Sophie Robehmed
Thursday 16 January 2014
On Sunday, more than 20,000 people will gather in Turkey to watch camels do battle in a spectacle that dates back thousands of years. It is, depending on your attachment to the ungainly beasts, a historic cultural institution to be celebrated – or a throwback to an era before animal-rights campaigns when it was OK to starve an animal for three months to make it cross.
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