# Turkish yoyos?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523
**Category:** Spin Tops
**Created:** [July 15, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523 "2013-07-15T17:33:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/1 "2013-07-15T17:33:07Z")
I found this video. It looks a lot like a spin top. Has anyone ever heard of these?
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOdXrgHOeo)
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### Author:  [@Apollo2](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apollo2)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/2 "2013-07-15T17:33:31Z")
I have one. Fun fun fun
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### Author:  [@Apollo2](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apollo2)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/3 "2013-07-15T17:34:22Z")
Tat vid is not of a turkish yoyo.
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### Author:  [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/4 "2013-07-15T17:34:23Z")
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### Author:  [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/5 "2013-07-15T17:35:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/6 "2013-07-15T17:37:47Z")
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### Author:  [@Apollo2](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apollo2)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/7 "2013-07-15T17:38:18Z")
Nope.
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### Author:  [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/8 "2013-07-15T18:32:48Z")
Fixed it.
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### Author:  [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/9 "2013-07-16T02:48:13Z")
I thought the decision to shoot that video with the shower as a backdrop was a little weird… until I saw the parakeet.
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### Author:  [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/10 "2013-07-16T16:25:10Z")
Can you do any thing with those besides spinning them on the ground?
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### Author:  [@yoyomaverick](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyomaverick)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/11 "2013-07-16T17:56:57Z")
I saw loads of them in Turkey. I originally planned on buying some.
The street vendors sell them along with roasted chestnuts. They’re extremely cheap (like 50 cents each maybe).
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### Author:  [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/12 "2013-07-16T23:37:45Z")
What do you do with them?
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### Author:  [@ta0](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ta0)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/turkish-yoyos/56523/13 "2013-07-19T19:33:36Z")
You can [play games](http://www.ta0.com/forum/index.php/topic,684.msg5881.html#msg5881):
“The most common toys in the rural areas of Anatolia are tops. The author has recorded more than seventy names for tops in Anatolia. There are also contest games played with tops. For instance, in a game called Tuka, Dozdoz, or Domuz, one contestant tries to hit the other’s spinning top with his own and drive it out of the game area.”
As far as our tricks, you can get them to spin on your hand (even directly from a boomerang although it is probably not very common), and twirl at the end of the string, imitating MGR, etc, but not much more.
[http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5856649693\_980a54f345\_b.jpg](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5856649693_980a54f345_b.jpg)