Talk:Ulas family

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This whole article _is_ royal fun. Is it really true? Even in a sober state of mind it only makes me laugh ...

Compare with this excerpt from Nabokov's Lolita:

"A man from Pasadena told me one day that Mrs. Maximovich née Zborovski had died in childbirth around 1945; the couple had somehow got over to California and had been used there, for an excellent salary, in a year-long experiment conducted by a distinguished American ethnologist. The experiment dealt with human and racial reactions to a diet of bananas and dates in a constant position on all fours. My informant, a doctor, swore he had seen with his own eyes obese Valechka and her colonel, by then gray-haired and also quite corpulent, diligently crawling about the well-swept floors of a brightly lit set of rooms (fruit in one, water in another, mats in a third and so on) in the company of several other hired quadrupeds, selected from indigent and helpless groups. I tried to find the results of these tests in the Review of Anthropology; but they appear not to have been published yet. These scientific products take of course some time to fructuate." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.187.110.134 (talk) 23:46, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Turkish reaction
Since the time the Ulas became more known to the outside world, the Turkish government fearing more bad publicity tries to present this Turkish family as non Turkish. That sparked a lot of protests by mostly radical Islamists that believe that the Ulas family is godsent by Prophet Muhammed himself wanting to show us that the only way forward is only on all four( six for Turks ). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.12.29.42 (talk) 11:11, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Follow-up.
Greetings - In the article about the Ulas family documentary, The Family That Walks On All Fours, it says that they were provided with parallel bars and physical therapy instruction and that in a follow-up, at least one family member was able to walk bipedally. If true, that should be added to this article. Thank you for your time, Wordreader (talk) 04:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)