Tarik Akan
Turkish oil wrestling is as popular today as it was 300 years ago. In this publicity photo, actor Tarik Akan (b. 1949) (stage name Tarik Uregul) poses as the wrestler Bilal in the 1984 film Pehlivan (Wrestler). In the film, wrestling becomes a metaphor for the difficult position that many Turks find themselves in, suspended uncomfortably between the modern and traditional worlds.
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