The man was caught walking through the streets of Türkiye.
Kösen has back problems that prevent him from standing completely upright
In the last few hours, a video circulated on social networks that immediately went viral. In it you can see a huge man surrounded by the crowd. Is about Sultan Kösenwho was entered into the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest living man in the world.
As various media confirmed, Kösen was walking through the streets of the city where he lives in Turkey. In the pictures you can see the overwhelming difference between him and the other average-sized people walking around him.
Who is Sultan Kösen, the tallest man in the world?
Sultan Kösen is currently 42 years old. He was born on December 10, 1982 in Mudanya, a district in northwestern Turkey with shores on the Sea of Marmara. At the age of 10, doctors discovered a tumor in the boy's pituitary gland, which caused pituitary gigantism. It is a hormonal disorder caused by excessive secretion of somatotropin, better known as growth hormone.
At the age of 21, Kösen's fate crossed with that of a technical director of a basketball team in a small town on the border between Turkey and Iraq. Since he was 2.42 meters tall at the time, the interested party from Galatasaray SK wanted to turn him into a professional star.
However, plans to introduce Sultan to the world of sports were soon thwarted. As soon as they took tests and saw the huge man on the court, they realized that it was physically impossible for him to play.
It wasn't until 2010 that doctors performed a procedure to remove the tumor from his pituitary gland and his body was able to stop its growth. In 2012, it was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest building in the world. Since then he has been part of the Magic Circus of Samoa, with whom he travels to Tahiti, the Seychelles and New Caledonia to perform.