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By Nevin Halici
Published 1989
Bumbar is very popular in southeastern Anatolia. In Siirt they even hold an annual three-day Bumbar Festival. On the first Monday in February, when narcissi – the first flowers of spring – are gathered on the mountains and hilltops, it is customary to make a particular kind of bumbar known as “cokat” and to eat it with a compote of grapes and apricots. Prospective mothers-in-law send their sons’ fiancées presents, including bumbar, baklava and fruit. The future mother-in-law does this only