Old Turkish habits die hard!

On Reuters Oddly Enough, I read and watched this:

Istanbul’s Club Fox on the Marmaris coast the belly dancer’s hips gyrate and tassels swirl to the music but the stomach is a little hairier than usual — it’s a man’s.

Male belly dancers are thrilling audiences in Turkey and other European capitals, drawing on a tradition dating back to Ottoman times when men in the Sultan’s palaces were entertained by young male dancers as the women lived separately in harems.

Here’s the youtube link to the male belly dancer … and …. umm, wait a second here! What was that again? The Ottomans brought male dancers to entertain them while their women lived separately in harems?

How sick is that?

No wonder they were referred to it as The sick man of Europe.

It all makes perfect sense now. icon_mrgreen.gif

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8 Responses to “Old Turkish habits die hard!”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Kahraman

    Hi there. Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, the dude that called the ottoman empire the sick man regretted it in a couple of years when he was defeated in the crimea war by allied Ottoman, British and french forces, actually died during it as I read from wikipedia.
    As you know, in those times Jordan used to be part of the ottoman empire, so probably your ancestors were ottoman citizens, or ottomans as they are known in Europe.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 mrs al ramahi

    this is sick :shock:

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Who-Sane

    Thanks for your valuable insights Kahraman. Yes, Jordan was part of the Ottoman empire but Jordanians were not Ottomans. Ottomans were Turks.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Who-Sane

    yeah isn’t it? :neutral:

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 verbal alchemy

    ehem,(im half turkish and i resent that lol)

    but to be honest, watching the dude made me wanna lose my breakfast!

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Who-sane

    oops! no offence intended really and that was long gone, you’re from the new and cool generation! :mrgreen:

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 verbal alchemy

    lol none taken :) im a proud pali bil nihayeh :mrgreen:

    yay im labeled cool :razz:

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