of Urfa differs from the rest of the province. Cuisine The famous çiğ köfte belongs to the culinary traditions of the city and was unknown to the rural population until 1980s. Tırşik is a traditional dish of the rural population within the province. Games and dance "Çan Çekiç Oyunu" is a traditional dice game of Urfa played with eight dice for money. "Dörtlü Oyunu" is a traditional dance of Urfa involving four people who each hold a red handkerchief in the right hand and a white one in the left hand. It is set to music played on the zurna and davul (types of horn and drum, respectively). Playground games "Derrebu Derinebu" is a tag-like playground game from Urfa that is a variant of the game "Darabil" from Gaziantep. In Derrebu Derinebu, players form two teams that face each other. A player from one team attempts to cross over to the other team, tag any number of players, and return, all while singing a rhyme without pausing for breath. The game locally known as "Arası Kesme" (called "Ara Kesme", "Esir Almaca", or other names in other parts of Turkey) is a capture-style game where one team tries to retrieve players from a designated area while the other team tries to stop them. A local variety of hide-and-seek (Saklambaç) is known as "Ebe Saklama". "Alkuç Balkuç" is an object-hiding game from Urfa where players stand in a circle and secretly pass an object from hand to hand. "Çukur Atma" is a marbles-type game of Urfa, except played with plum or apricot seeds instead of actual marbles. Another game particular to Urfa is "İğne Miğne Kiraz" and the finger-and-hand-based games "Beş Parmağı Yüz veya Bin Yapmak" and "Açıl Kilidim Açıl". Music A rich body of folk literature from Urfa is the mâni — a type of sung, single-stanza folk poetry consisting of seven lines with an A-A-B-A rhyme scheme. The hoyrat is a local subgenre of the mâni where the first line is missing a syllable. The hoyrat is a cultural tradition also present at Kirkuk in Iraq. Politics On 1 January 1928 the province was included into the First Inspectorate-General over which an Inspector-General ruled according to the policies recommended in Report for Reform in the East. The Inspectorate was governed with martial law and span over the provinces of Hakkâri, Siirt, Van, Mardin, Bitlis, Şanlıurfa, Elaziğ and Diyarbakır. The office