Welcome sign in sign up. On the night of September 27, , Derin Oylum, a twenty-year-old Turkish graphic design student who is in the early stages of transitioning from female to male, met with his girlfriend, Emine, in the small Aegean town in Turkey where they both live. The couple climbed a hill, enjoyed the views of green fields, and talked about their relationship. Derin says the boy punched him to the ground and kicked him several times in the face. He was head-butted twice; his right cheekbone was fractured. Half an hour later the father arrived.

Under the shade of a tree at an Istanbul cafe, Suzan, a voluptuous woman in her 50s with dyed blond hair and a warm, generous smile, describes how she went from teenage bride to full-time sex worker. As she talks, her cell phone rings nearly every 15 minutes. Customers, she explains. It's a syncopation of male desire, hungry for her attention.

This is a warning. It has happened several time since my solo trip to Turkey. Men will buy gifts. Coffee, cheap jewelry.

But a deeper dive into the mating rituals and breeding characteristics of the turkey animal reveals some weird, interesting things. First of all, we have to make a distinction between the domesticated turkey and the wild turkey: though the two are technically the same species Meleagris gallopavo , they differ quite a bit in size, behavior, and in the way they mate. The wild turkey is easiest to explain.