photo reflections: turkey, vol. 8
June 29th, 2009 | Written by hurricanic
The photos below were taken in Tarsus, my second day in Turkey. (Yes, as in Paul of Tarsus.) We were walking around looking at wells where Paul would’ve gathered water (supposedly) and gates where Cleopatra would’ve entered (most likely), and saw this bizarre social interaction (see below). I wouldn’t have thought a whole lot about it, other than, “That’s a hard way to ride a bike”, but Curtis and Annie seem to think that something very Turkish is caught in these images as men in that country are very, very publicly affectionate. Now, this is the same country where you’ll most likely be killed or severally wounded/assaulted/etc. for being gay…but somehow riding around like this is totally appropriate. Interesting…
