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DutchCrusader


Joined: 19/05/2008 Posts: 11281
Message Posted: 18/11/2009 16:29 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 1 of 5 in Discussion |
| When you are new in TRNC this little list may come handy to print or save (I'm not the author, I just saved it to my hard disk - DC): National Holidays Jan 1 New Years Day April 23 Turkish National Sovereignty and Childrens Day May 1 Labour Day May 19 Ataturk Commemoration Day and Youth and Sports Day July 20 Turkish Intervention Day Peace and Freedom Day Aug 1 Social Resistance Day Aug 30 Zafer Bayram (Victory Day) Oct 29 Turkish Republic Day Nov 15 TRNC Republic Day (To be continued) |
DutchCrusader


Joined: 19/05/2008 Posts: 11281
Message Posted: 18/11/2009 16:31 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 2 of 5 in Discussion |
| (Continued from msg 1) Religious Holidays There are quite a few Religious Days but they are not generally taken as holiday, but there will be celebrations in the Mosques. The main Religious Holidays are: Seker Bayram (Sugar Bayram) Lasts three days and takes place at the end of the Holy Month of Ramazan. Kurban Bayram (Feast of Sacrifice) Takes place two months after Seker Bayram and lasts for four days. As Seker Bayram last year was on 23 24 25 October the Kurban Bayram just happened to coincide with New Year. Ramazan moves forward in the year (as Jim pointed out) about 10 days and so this year Kurban Bayram will be approximately 10 days before New Year, around 21 December-ish. Hence the comment that the shops may well be empty. As Ramazan moves each year then it will coincide with all the national holidays at some point over the years. Not all the shops shut for every holiday, often the small local shops stay open for the basics. [end] |
Warbabies

Joined: 18/04/2009 Posts: 165
Message Posted: 18/11/2009 17:52 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 3 of 5 in Discussion |
| Think you've got the Kurban Bayram a little wrong Dutch Crusader. My list gives 27th November -30th November, inclusive, for the Kurban Bayram this year. |
newscoop

Joined: 23/12/2007 Posts: 2197
Message Posted: 18/11/2009 20:27 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 5 of 5 in Discussion |
| Funny; Could have sworn Kurban was in nine days time! |
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