Celebrations for New Year begin from New Year's Eve on 31st December. This is the last day of the Gregorian calendar and the day before New Year's Day. The idea behind New Year's Eve celebration is to bid adieu to the year gone by and give a warm welcome to the coming year. Popular way of celebrating New Year's Eve is to party until the moment of the transition of the year at midnight.
A new year starts, an old one ends: 31 Dec the world will celebrate again the end of the year and the beginning of another.
This is also a time of celebration for many expats living in Turkey, and like other countries, also there are interesting New Year’s Eve customs and superstitions in Turkey you may want to get acquainted with. Let’s have a look. Well then, those coming from Christian backgrounds probably sensed it already: New Year’s Eve festivities in Turkey are similar to Christmas celebrations worldwide. Indeed, at year’s end most Turkish cities will be decorated all over with lights. Shops throughout the country decorate their windows with green trees, white snowballs and red stockings and many other traditional Christmas ornaments. Be sure that at this time of year, supermarkets and shopping malls will offer loads of decorative house wares, usually to be found in a special corner for “Yılbaşı Ürünleri” (the New Year’s Day product section). For many foreigners, this may be irritating on first view because they tend to associate these typical ornaments with the Christian Christmas Eve in particular. In Turkey, however, all this is done to mark the turn of the year rather than to celebrate Christmas.
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[Edited: 2012 Nov 12 09:37 - travelcappadocia:249444 - added my homepage]
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