1) Come December and I go back to Turkey, albeit, in my thoughts. 2) The memories of visiting Konya come flooding around this time of the year. 3) Thousands of people descend from all over the world on the Turkish city of Konya for a week-long celebration of Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes’ Festival. 4) I too had visited Konya, a city south of Ankara in Turkey’s Central Anatolia region to attend the annual festival which is one of the most important events in the whole of Turkey. 5) The dervishes returned side by side and knelt down.