Dressed in colourful pasha-style costumes, they are about to be circumcised, like all Muslim boys in Turkey, and the carousel is spinning to the rhythm of a Muslim cleric's chanting. Ozkan has done as many as 2,000 circumcisions in a day, and has performed tens of thousands in all. When all the boys on the wheel have been circumcised, the celebration begins.
Traditional music fills the hall and the boys and their families take to the dance floor.
But not for long. The anaesthetic only lasts for about two hours, after which the pain sets in. All rights reserved.