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Greetings my Turkish friends. What do you call that dance(?) where the participants spin around for hours? I saw it once on the Discovery Channel years ago & the Madonna video "Bedtime Stories".

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It is called semazen:)
It is dervish turning.
There use d to be a philosopher called Mevlana. Who says:
Whoever you are come, your religion, your money, your being poor,etc... don't matter. We welcome everybody. Come.
You are going to see their one hand is open up and one hand is down like giving someyhing. It means whatever i receive i give it to the others. You never let anybody down.
Mevlana is the symbol of friendship, tolerance,love,peace in Turkey.
Well if you would like to see this is something you will like to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwkahtbu6... Source(s): By the way 2007 is worldwide International Mevlana Peace Year.
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Hello
We call them ''SEMAZEN '' and they make ''SEMA'' .Their all moves has meanings so id like you to visit this link
http://www.adiyamanli.org/mevlana.html...
Yes,they are right.It is called as Sema.It is a kind of ceremony.
Sema means firmament.

Semazen is the name for the dervishes turning in the ceremony of Sema.
Whirling Dervishes
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It's a ritual dance, called semazen. You may also call them "whirling dervishes". There is a mosque somewhere in central Istanbul that you can see this "dance" live.

It is also called the Mevlevi order...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mevlevi...
dance is called semazen