Habibe Yuksel's camel Efecan (R) and other owners and camels are waiting for their turn in the Camel Beauty Contest to be held at the Selcuk Camel Wrestling Festival in Selcuk district near Izmir city, Turkey, 14 January 2023. For Habibe Yüksel, camel wrestling is much more than just a sport – it is her family’s legacy. Continuing what her grandfather started 70 years ago, Yüksel’s passion for the sport has carved out a unique position as western Turkey’s only woman in a traditionally male-dominated arena. In 2009, she bought her two young calves when they were three years old, and decided to take up the sport that her grandfather had been forced to abandon in the 1970s as he could not keep up with the financial demands of breeding and feeding camels for competition. The sport features two male camels clashing in bouts that normally last about 10 minutes. As a nearby female camel is needed to get the males in the mood, the matches are usually held during mating season, from November to March. (Photo by Sedat Suna/EPA/EFE)





Habibe Yuksel and her team celebrate after winning the Camel Beauty Contest at the Selcuk Camel Wrestling Festival in Selcuk, Turkey, 14 January 2023. (Photo by Sedat Suna/EPA/EFE)





An owner presents his camel during the Camel Beauty Contest at the Selcuk Camel Wrestling Festival in Selcuk district near Izmir city, Turkey, 14 January 2023. (Photo by Sedat Suna/EPA/EFE)





Two camels fight during the Selcuk-Efes Camel Wrestling Festival in the town of Selcuk, near the western coastal city of Izmir, Turkey, 15 January 2023. (Photo by Sedat Suna/EPA/EFE)





Earthquake survivor Fatma Cantali rescues the Holy Quran and frame of Quran's verses from her wrecked house's debris after 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hit in Hatay, Turkiye, on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Mehmet Kaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





An underwater view of Sakaryabasi, which was designated a “Natural Site-Qualified Natural Protection Area” by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization in 2020 and is the beginning of Sakarya River, is seen in Eskisehir, Turkiye on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A person climbs a lamppost as people gather to celebrate Newroz, which marks the arrival of spring and the new year, in Diyarbakir, Turkey on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





People, with the Ayasofya-i Kebir Camii or Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in the background, have their iftar (breaking fast) meal at Sultanahmet Square during first day of the holy month of Ramadan in Istanbul, Turkey on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)





Women walks with shopping bags in front of collapsed buildings on the eve of Ramadan, in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, 22 March 2023. More than 50,000 people died and thousands more were injured after major earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on 06 February and again on 20 February 2023. (Photo by Erdem Sahin/EPA/EFE)





People break their fast after dusk on the first day of Ramadan backdropped by the iconic Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, March 23, 2023. Abstaining from all food and drink – not even a sip of water is allowed – and sеxual intercourse from dawn to sunset during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is regarded as an act of piety and devotion to God and an exercise in self-restraint. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





A child plays with a cat next to a makeshift animal shelter at Cihangir neighbourhood in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, March 23, 2023. Turan comes every single day with cat food in his hand to the makeshift shelter he helped build with the other volunteers in the area and takes care of the needs of the cats that reside their every single day. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





A man with a shovel stands in his slippers in the mud close to tents set up for displaced people following a massive earthquake last month, in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey on March 25, 2023. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP Photo)





Miners break fast (iftar) at mine site, one of Turkiye's major lignite coal production centers, during the holy month of Ramadan in Soma district of Manisa, Turkiye on March 25, 2023. About 500 miners in the mining company returned to the mine site on after participating in search and rescue operation following 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hit multiple provinces of Turkiye occurred on Feb. 06. The miners, who work hundreds of meters below the site according to their shifts, also fulfill the requirements of the holy month of Ramadan despite their difficult professions. According to their working hours, they spend their iftar (breaking the fast) and sahur (pre-dawn) together. (Photo by Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





This photograph shows a clock tower of Hatay still standing as it stopped at 4:10 in Hatay on March 28, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on February 6, 2023 killed more than 50,000 in southeastern Turkey and nearly 6,000 over the border in Syria, leaving entire cities in ruins. Hundreds of thousands of workers in Turkey and Syria have lost their livelihoods due to the earthquake, the United Nations said on March 28, 2023, as it called for urgent support to rebuild businesses. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP Photo)





Seagulls swarm around the fisherman of “Rifat Reis 3” boat, led by Captain Volkan Canbaz, working on the open seas in Izmir, Turkiye on March 29, 2023. Seasonal workers meet sahur (pre-dawn) meal and iftar (fast-breaking) dinner during the holy month of Ramadan on their boats. The fishermen sailed on Sep.01 and plan to end the fishing season on Apr.15 while boats of seasonal workers, who working during the night and taking a rest during the day, become their home. (Photo by Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Worshippers attend Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Grand Camlica Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey on March 31, 2023. (Photo by Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)





Worshippers wait to attend Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at Eyup Sultan mosque in Istanbul, Turkey on March 31, 2023. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





Local residents look on at their town, Yusufeli, submerged by an artificial lake caused by a dam retaining the flow of the Coruh river (also referred to as Chorokhi), Artvin province, in northeastern Turkey, on April 4, 2022. The Yusufeli Dam and its Hydroelectric Power Plant Project in the Eastern Black Sea Region has started to hold water, with the electricity production expected to start in May 2023. With a total water storage volume of approximately 2.2 billion cubic meters, the double curvature concrete arch dam is Turkey's highest with a height of 275 meters. (Photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP Photo)





A view of the white stork nesting on the top of a minaret damaged by the devastating earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaras two months ago, as the nest securely transferred onto dome of the mosque in Osmaniye, Turkiye on April 04, 2023. The damaged minaret later systematically demolished by teams. (Photo by Mustafa Unal Uysal/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A Muslim worshipper offers a pray during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at Suleymaniye mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Islam's holiest month is a period of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)