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New Year’s Day inTurkey
Turkish people do not celebrate Christmas but they are marking the New Year. Many parties are held on New Year's Eve. Night clubs, luxury hotels and restaurants have special programs and menus, and radio and television stations broadcast special programs which last until morning.
Although many programs and parties are offered by restaurants and night clubs,many families prefer having their own parties at home. Often, several families will get together to celebrate. The wives show off their cooking skills by preparing richly set tables, and everyone spends the night eating, watching television, listening to music and dancing.
Another tradition of the new year is to buy a lottery
ticket.; Although the National Lottery Administration holds three drawings a month with reasonable prizes, the top prize for the new year challenges everyone to get at least one ticket.
Tombala is one of our traditional games in Turkey. Most of people play this game with their family or friends every new year's eve. We usually play it in our houses. Some of us define a prize for the winner. When there is a prize in the game it is more exciting for us. You can give small presents for players who has made “çinko” too.
Santa Claus in Turkey Santa Claus, or Saint Nicholas, is called "Noel Baba"
in Turkey. While the popular myth is that he lives at the North Pole, he actually lived and died in Turkey during the fourth century. He was the Bishop of Myra, now called Demre, near Antalya.
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