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A composite image assembled of two photos showing people without costumes (top) and people with heads, tails, horns and bones from the animals they sacrifice on the Feast of Sacrifice costumes (bottom), in order to keep alive the memory of the military unit named “Deliler” in the Ottoman period, and they continue the tradition of “Alabas”, has been carried on for nearly 2 centuries, in Mustafakemalpasa district of Bursa, Turkiye on June 17, 2024. Residents of the rural Sehriman Neighborhood of the district turn the skins, heads, tails, horns and bones from the animals they slaughter on the Feast of Sacrifice into costumes. Wearing the costumes, young people suddenly stand in front of people in the neighborhood square and streets in the evening and scare them by making different sounds. (Photo by Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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