Religious Holidays

Seker Bayrami: Three-day festival to celebrate the end of the fasting month; Ramadan. (December 16-18, 2001)

Kurban Bayrami: Four-day festival when sacrificial sheep are slaughtered and their meat distributed to the poor. (February 21-24, 2002)

(The dates of these religious festivals change because of the difference between the Muslim lunar calendar and solar calendar.)