The Kırkpınar Grease-Wrestling Championships take place annually in June, on the island of Sarayiçi in the Tunca River. The event is famed throughout Turkey and accompanied by a week-long carnival.Before competing, the wrestlers don knee-length leather shorts ( kıspet) and grease them selves from hea to foot in diluted olivie oil. The master ceremonies, the cazgır, then invites the competitors to take part in a high-stepping, arm-flinging parade across the field, accompanied by music played on a deep-toned drum (davul) and a single ree aboe (zurna). Wrestling bouts can last up two hours and involve long periods of frozen, silent concentration interspersed by attempts to throw own the opponent.