In the village of Yenice of Gümushane, local people – young and old – have been playing volleyball-ball of snow on weekends every winter season for 30 years. The “do-it-yourselfers” of snow” (“Karın Efeleri” in Turkish), who make a net wooden poles and ropes ballots straw, waiting for their opponents.
In the village of Yenice, which was home to tradition of volleyball-ball of snow for many years, the people of the village is divided in two teams depending, depending on age. After working together to clear a snowy areales villager fight hard for win on the land they set up. Competitions are organized on the volleyball courtballwhich is prepared by making a pole made of wood and a net made of yarn of straw bales. The loser team offers tea to the villagers.
As the elderly leave the young people behind with their performance in gamesla players who to fall on the snowy ground occasionally creates colorful images.
Declaring that they continue the tradition by inviting young people living outside the village in Yenice every weekend, 62-year-Old Şinasi Durdu said: “We invite our young people living in Gümüşhane here every weekend and we continue the tradition. We will be happy if they continue this tradition in future.”
“When we receive up every morning we clean the facade of houses, roads and barns with shovels and get on with our lives. We spend our time playing footballvolley-ballinter-village matches and welcome guests,” he told Ihlas News Agency (IHA).
Meanwhile, the mukhtar of Yenice Village, Bayram Durdu, said they were waiting for their rivals from Gümüşhane. “We used to watch them play in our childhood. There was not place for us for play. As we grew up we started playing too,” he said.
“It is a beautiful event with the arrival of our villagers of Gümüşhane. I hope it will continue in the future. We sew our pole with our own means, we do our net with rope. We made our rope lines. What we lack is our pole, net and ground. Since we don’t have any equipment, we make it ourselves and play like that, said Durdu, pointing out this place people from the age of 7 to 77 play volleyball-ball on snow.
Inviting their rivals to the village, Durdu said, “We will continue this tradition. Yes anyone want to playthey can come to Gümüşhane and play with us here.”
the people of Gümüşhane are known for their success and passion in volleyball-ball. There are also a girl teamwho is engaged in breeding and regularly plays volleyballball on the land they set up with their own means in their free time, in the village of Kirazlik of Torul district, located at an altitude of 2,229 meters (7,313 miles) above sea level. The video of the Highland girls, known as public like the “Sultans of the Highlands”, had been observed millions of times.
