43rd Caucasus Festival started with a bull parade

The Kafkasör Culture Tourism and Art Festival, which is held for the 43rd time this year in the Kafkasör Plateau of Artvin and will last for 5 days, started with a bull parade. The festival, held for the 43rd time this year in Artvin, started with a parade. In the parade, bull wrestling bulls also took their place due to the bull wrestling, which is the most important organization of the festival and has a 200-year-old tradition. The parade walk took place accompanied by the Turkish flag draped over the 700-kilogram bull named ‘Ahmetağa’. Citizens gathered in front of the municipality building and laid a wreath at the Atatürk Monument in front of the Governorship. Then, a minute of silence was observed and the National Anthem was sung. Speaking at the ceremony, Artvin Mayor Bilgehan Erdem said, ‘As representatives of a culture that is said to date back 200 years, we are here to hold the 43rd official Kafkasör Festival. Whatever you do, no cultural element is valuable if humans are not the important essence. What makes it valuable is people giving importance to it; being able to pass it on to future generations in a correct way with love. It is about valuing its mission and what it does. Artvin is such a region that it is not surrounded by seas on all four sides, but by mighty mountains. You have to hold your head up high to look at the horizon. What you see from the outside is this: It is a geography surrounded by mountains in a barren land. If you look from the outside, you might think it’s barren, poor, rural. But Artvin is such a geography, has such precious people; if you want to place a second capital next to Ankara, I think the second capital is Artvin’.