Today's post is about how close the domestic animals are to the people in east Turkey. Here, a Turkish turkey alife in a kitchen, and more photos at the bottom of this note. (And yes, I know that the children are not sharp here, whereas the turkey is better focused, everyone was a bit moving ; your advice is always welcome...)
Some photos could appear comic to us ; it is just normal there, whereas people there think that keeping a dog inside a house looks very strange and unhealthy... My intention is of course not to tell how archaic conditions are there, in fact this family seemed to live rather comfortably and with good standards of hygiene, but they prefered to keep this turkey locked inside the kitchen for a few days while the chicks were still so young, to protect them...
Here are other examples (and again, life in the yaylas (summer pasture at high altitude) is hard and not comfortable, but this is only for 2 or 3 months each year !) :
a cat and a chicken inside the corridor of the same house,
a veal inside a yayla with children that you have met before,
another veal in another house,
or a goose and her chicks inside yet another yayla...