Edirne, in Turkish Thrace, is as close to Greece an Bulgaria as one can get.
Every summer, a one week festival, the Kırkpınar festival is held. This year the festival runs from July 1 - July 6, 2013. The oil wrestling championship will be held on July 6 of this year, likely (reports on the date vary on the web).
I'll blog posts on the Kirkpinar championships when hey happen.
Greece and Bulgaria are nearby and have been Turkish provinces in the not-ditant past.
Oil wrestling is practiced in Greece and Romania. While we await the grand Turkic event, here are images from those countries.
Greece, Romania, Turkey
The Turkic Ottoman Empire:
From Sorres, Greece
. . . and more recently from Nova Cherna, Bulgaria
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