denizaksulu wrote:boomerang wrote:denizaksulu wrote:boomerang wrote:denizaksulu wrote:boomerang wrote:denizaksulu wrote:YFred wrote:It just goes to prove that they are GCs in that picture.
They are playing a game called 'oğlancılık'. Very common in the palaces of the Ottoman Sultans. It is likely they are 'devshirme' from the Balkans.
yeah and the clan latched on it straight away huh?...
You can imagine that a lot of offsrping would sprout out from the 'cariye's' as well.
yeah our own resident marble licker is a by product...
Unlıkely. He'd be from the il Seraglıo/Doge's Palace on St Marks Square
what he threw the fez away already?...geez that didnt take long...
That wasn't a fez Boomers The fez was still a Greek/Macedonıan fingy which the Ottomans adopted from the Greeks much later. That pic ıs a sixteenth century erotica/mınature. Runaway more likely.
you are opening a whole new can of worms bringing skidmark in the formula...