Turkey’s Kars hosts mounted javelin-throwing event in snow

A centuries-old traditional sport, mounted javelin-throwing, indigenous to Central Asian and Anatolian Turkic communities, is a popular attraction for tourists in Turkey's north-eastern province of Kars nowadays. Youngsters from the Kekeç village of Kars's Selim district both enjoy mounted javelin-throwing, which they inherited from their ancestors, and perform a unique show for the tourists who enjoy the show on snow-blanketed fields.

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