A: No videos yet but, here are several shots of the birds in action.
A: The basic difference in this country the coop is a show breed and the takla is a performance.
However, I say in this country, because there is a big difference between the coops I have seen here and the ones in Syria or Iraq. I don't know what the reason is but the ones here seem to be smaller with softer feathers and much-exaggerated physical features. This could be because most of them are from the blood line that was imported in the late 50s and depletion of genes by too much inbreeding or the popular show breeding, which always brings in the possibility of cross breeding (with other breeds) to get different qualities.
Bottom line, the Takla is the ancestor of the coop. Coop tumblers, Iraqi tumblers and several other breeds surfaced during the Seljuk and following that the Ottoman occupation of the Persia and the Arabic Peninsula starting 1055 up to the end of the W.W.I.
In Turkey Takla is known as separate breeds depending of their city of origin. In reality the word takla just means tumbler. (So, if West of England Tumblers were from Turkey, they would have been called takla too. Provided, they actually tumbled.) Most of the time there are very minor differences between each takla kind (Definitely too minor for show fanciers to consider them as different breeds but, in a region where only a few breeds considered as real pigeon breed, the little changes make a big difference for the fancier that is following the tradition of couple of thousand years +.) and the Syrian coop is actually is the same bird as the Takla from the city of Antalya in Turkey. For about two hundred years before the Ottomans another Turkish Kingdom ruled over Syria and the southern portion of Turkey. Their capital city was Antalya, historically known as Pamphilia Talya, Atalia and later Atalya. At this time this breed got it's start in Syria. This is the history of it but the coops are in many ways different than Takla and so are many taklas from different cities of Turkey from each other.
Size: Coop is a taller bird as it exists in Antalya and Syria. The bird on the far-left side of this picture is a Coop. It is clear that the legs and the rest of the body is in a taller shape. The bird at the far right (back) is a takla from another region of Turkey and as you can see it is smaller than the other taklas also. Another thing is the chest, which is larger or I should say wider in Takla.
Performance: The coop is known to fly in lower altitudes, where takla flies higher (Even though, this really depends on the type of takla, their training and performance style) but not a high flier like the Iranians. Coop plays (term used to describe their tumbling performance, as in plays hard) with straight (tumbling while flying w/o gaining altitude) and some of them make the upstairs climbing (this type of performance is very common for Iraqi tumblers also) but, does not charge the ground and won't spin during the climb like the takla does. Also the flight is limited to 2 hrs. Where you can get up to 10 hrs from a performing takla (In the case of some Urfa and Mardin blood lines, this can go up to 15-18 hrs) .
Physique: Coop comes with all the colors of Takla but not the rosed or double crested like takla. However, there is a muffles type of Coop called Taklaji (named after Takla, which means Tumble in Turkish) that comes with a head crest on the back of the head. Also certain types of Takla comes with heavy muffs, as long as 6". Besides all these, keep in mind that these countries are all bordering each other and it is very easy to find one kind of Takla in another or just merely cross bred birds. You will get people claiming their birds are one kind but, look and perform just like another. When purchasing these types of birds, it is very important to get them from a fancier that is very traditional and true to his or her breed. They all have special beauty but cross breeding is unacceptable.
