Faces of Circumcision: Post Circumcision Ceremony (Turkey)

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The Turks defer male circumcision until age six or seven, thus turning it from a birth ritual into a coming-of-age ordeal.

On the day of the event, the boys dress in white and red ribbons and ride flower-bedecked donkeys or cars to the ceremony.

When the circumcision is completed, their "status" changes drastically: ribbons removed, they hold court like kings on lavishly decorated beds, receiving compliments and gifts.

Note the blood still on the boy's fingers.

Photo: Michael Lange/Visum
Image: Life Magazine, p. 37, October, 1991