News about Sultan Kosen

On Turkey's southern border, Sultan Kosen, who towers over everybody else in the world at 8ft 3inches, was seen peering out of the privacy curtain at the polling station in the Derik district of Mardin. On Sunday, Turks were voting in municipal elections, with all attention on Istanbul, the national 'jewel' that President Recep Erdogan wishes to push away from the opposition.

Both Sultan Kosen, who stands at 8 foot 3in, and Jyoti Amge, a 2ft tall woman, were striking pair as they posed for photographs in Irvine, California, yesterday. The two people were awarded their respective Guiness World Record titles in 2009 for 'Tallest Live Man' and 2011 for 'Shortest Living Woman.' Kosen, 41, and Amge, 30, photographers, had been shooting in Cairo (inset), Egypt, in 2018, where they photographed in front of the Giza Pyramids as part of a movement to revive the country's struggling tourism industry. Their tall and short stature were attributed to medical conditions. Amge has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia that stifled her growth, while Kosen had a tumor that caused pituitary gigantism, which gave him a major growth spurt at the age of 10.

Rumeysa Gelgi (left), a 7ft 0.7inches (215.16 cm), was officially named the highest female in existence by Guinness World Records earlier this year. Her big stature is a result of a condition called Weaver syndrome, which, among other things, contributes to increased growth. She can get around in a wheelchair or with the help of a walker. Gelgi, 24, had never been to a plane before, because she was too tall to fit in regular airline seats even as a child. However, she is now able to travel internationally and flew to San Francisco in September (main, inset) thanks to her national airline, which cut out six seats aboard one of its aircraft and replaced them with a specially-made stretcher to allow Gelgi to fly in comfort.