Turbans in Turkey?

[barbatus]

Ottomans are always portrayed in the west as having worn turbans. To what degree are turbans a part of Turkish culture today? Would someone look totally out of place wearing one in modern Turkey? Are they a part of national dress? Would the average Turk know how to wrap one? Is there a Turkish style of wearing a turban (Afghan lungees are wrapped in a particular style).



^ Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (my favourite Ottoman leader) wearing a large turban

[Alchemysta]

I like turbans.

[Ballist]

Big ass turbans, too. Perhaps because Ottoman culture was very Arabic influenced.

[barbatus]

I like turbans.

Me too, man. I think they look cool. i especially like the Afghan way of wearing them

[Nebuchadnezzar]

That's what Rulers of the caliphate wore, they wore turbans, since the first caliph Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, that was like the dress-code for a caliph, this is what Arabs wore back then, even before Islam, I belive it has to do with heat of the sun, somewhere along the line, the turban got modernized and was replaced by this:

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Me too, man. I think they look cool. i especially like the Afghan way of wearing them

Reminds me of the talibans... lol

I preffer, the omani version..... coolest turban of all turbans

[Ryujin]

Turban stands for "headscarf" in Turkish, Hijab to be specific. The type men wear is generally associated with imams and such.

[barbatus]

Turban stands for "headscarf" in Turkish, Hijab to be specific. The type men wear is generally associated with imams and such.

So only clerics wear turbans in Turkey?

[Ryujin]

So only clerics wear turbans in Turkey?

And some sectarians like these of Ismailaga.

[gültekin]

such huge Turbans was used by officials, not by citizens. How big, so much authorized was they
people used different dress style.
Central Turkey


West Turkey