During a recent trip outside Lebanon myself and Greco-Roman Wrestler found ourselves in Eastern Turkey - hiking from the picuresque hill town of Mardin - a rare beneficiary of government investment in an area often overlooked by Ankara - to the monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, the former seat of the Syrian Orthodox patriarchate. On our journey, having passed by some rather friendly turkeys and some rather annoying children we came across an old couple working in a field. Ever quick to seize upon a photo opportunity Greco-Roman Wrestler quickly got out his camera, only to be greeted with indignation and the sort of hand gestures that really are not lost in translation. In an area renowned for a confluence of Turkish, Kurdish, Yazidi, Christian and Syrian cultures and the corresponding linguistic plurality that this entails it was difficult to ascertain in what language we were being reprimanded. Rather than panic, keen to assuage the tension and being particularly skilled in lingusitic intuition Greco-Roman Wrestler decided to reply in a tongue of his own.
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