Wow they are Muslims in Turkey. I guess that explains those Mosques in Istanbul. With that 25% inflation, I bet they like U.S. dollars. What happen to all the tanneries in Kastoria?

Our mink are pretty uniform throughout their range, predictably, because they're an introduced species. Yakutian mink are different, they're glossier and darker, a dark mahogany with a cherry tinge, but they are a relatively recent introduction so there may be some ranch mink blood in them.


Interesting. But it's not just the tanneries I think. There's very little information on what's been going since it's mostly private deals within their diasporas going past all auctions, but you are probably right that those muslim buyers have connections primarily with Turkey. That would explain the irrational antisemitism, too. I know however that a lot of the marten the turks buy is already tanned. This includes smuggled furs. This was in the news about a year and a half ago, a couple of tourists were caught in Istanbul with 1200 undeclared "sable skins". You can see that all these skins are not sable but tanned baum marten, already without tails.