Editing Carnival (section)

====Turkey====
{{Main|Baklahorani}}

For almost five centuries, [[Greeks in Turkey|local Greek]] [[Greek Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] communities throughout [[Istanbul]] celebrated Carnival with weeks of bawdy parades, lavish balls, and street parties.<ref name=GreekMinority>{{cite web | url=http://www.omogeneia-konstantinoupoli.com/en/id/ar/baklahorani.html | title=Baklahorani Carnival | publisher=Greek Minority of Istanbul | accessdate=13 January 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101223253/http://www.omogeneia-konstantinoupoli.com/en/id/ar/baklahorani.html | archive-date=1 November 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> This continued for weeks before Lent. [[Baklahorani]] took place on [[Shrove Monday]] or [[Clean Monday]], the last day of the carnival season. The event was led by the Greek Orthodox community, but the celebrations were public and inter-communal. The final celebration was sited in the [[Kurtuluş]] district.<ref>{{cite news| first=Tom| last=Heneghan| title=Istanbul celebrates carnival after nearly 70 years| url=http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2011/03/09/istanbul-celebrates-carnival-after-nearly-70-years/| work=Reuters| access-date=1 November 2011| date=9 March 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026054508/http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2011/03/09/istanbul-celebrates-carnival-after-nearly-70-years/| archive-date=26 October 2011| url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2010, the festival was revived.<ref>{{cite news| last=Mullins| first=Ansel| title=Reviving Carnival in Istanbul| url=http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/reviving-carnival-in-istanbul/| work=The New York Times| access-date=1 November 2011| date=27 February 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011050202/http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/reviving-carnival-in-istanbul/| archive-date=11 October 2011| url-status=dead}}</ref>