Turkish Stars' show

It doesn't happen often one can look at a flying fighter jet from above, if his is not himself a jet pilot :)

Last 9th of September, as every year, the Turkish AitForce acrobatic team "Turkish Stars" made the show. An hour of breath taking performance for these seven jets and their pilots.

Unfortunately the show was set for 6 PM and the sun at this time is already lowering behind the jets, giving poor contrasts and colours to work with.

To give a scale about the performance I am at around 50 meter elevation, they fly really low over the city!

More about them on
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and
http://www.turkyildizlari.tsk.tr/EN/Index.aspx    

The Turkish Stars

Cormorants, Pelicans and Seagulls are not the only birds flying over the bay, the Stars making their last fly before the 9 of September show. They fly low over the city and the bay and make their acrobatics just a stone-throw away from the shoreline. 

The are flying 8 supersonic jet fighters, a variant of the F-5 Freedom Fighter.

Shadow

The Cormorants

I have never seen that much cormorants over the bay, they generally spread on poles or moored boats in half a dozen lazily picking a fish around or drying their wings, what cormorants best do :) , this morning there were hundreds of them flying swiftly in long lines and raising slowly over the water to form long V formations

Father and Daughter

In their memory, RIP

Ali Ismail Kormaz just left our world to rest with his brothers who like him, just peacefully protested, exercising their democratic elementary rights. Thursday we met and walked to remember him and the reasons we have to stand up. Many are recovering from their wounds, sometime marked forever, sometime fighting for their life directly hit by tear-gas shells.

The Van cats

This beautiful Van Cat young mother is not happy about my intrusion, she first swiftly pushed her blue eyed son in house and than came back staring at me with her piercing yellow eyes in such unfriendly way.

Van Cats are not a breed but a true race one can find in the wild around the lake of Van even if they become rare, they have yellow or blue eyes, sometime one of each, and beautiful white hair. There is a trade of them but often made of bred lookalike van cats, true Van Cats are really hard to find. I do not know actually if this pair is pure race.

But what a regard!