North Cyprus Celebrations and Event being held - 20th of July 2008 - Peace and Freedom Day celebrations, TRNC

Celebrations begin with a 21 gun-salute at 12 noon when a speech to the nation by President Mehmet Ali Talat will be broadcast on Bayrak Radio & Television.

At this years celebration Turkey is being represented by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan together with a high level delegation.

As in past years various events and ceremonies will be held at Lefkosa & other large towns around the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to mark this anniversary.

The ceremonies mark  the 34th year of the Turkish Peace Operation in Cyprus and will climax on Sunday.

An  official ceremony, the first of the day will be held at the Boğaz Martyrdom where martyrs will be commemorated.

There will be the laying of wreaths at the Martrys’ and Atatürk Monuments.

Another  wreath laying ceremony will take place at the tomb of Doctor Fazıl Küçük- the late leader of the Turkish Cypriot People.

The  Turkish Air Force’s supersonic aerobatics team will also be performing in the TRNC as part of the celebrations on Sunday.

The Gelibolu Frigate from the Turkish Navy is docked in the Girne Port and will be open to public to allow visits during its stay.

   Yesterday my husband called out in panic that a baby sparrow had dropped to the ground and sounded something like  a golf ball falling onto concrete from a great height. 

Of course it was upto me to investigate as he was in the process of doing something or other. What I found was an almost featherless bird that was having difficulty breathing or rather breathing very fast.  It looked so young that my first impression was it didn´t stand a chance.

I brought it in and placed it in a small cardboard box, expecting that very shortly it would be gone.  Was I ever wrong.  Once it had time to accept what had happened its breathing normalized and it began calling out.  It had a damaged leg and wing. 

For the next couple of hours I placed it outside to see if the parents would feed it but Alas, that was not going to happen, and I was faced with just one option - to try and rear it.

My husband left for the shops and a tin of catfood, expecting to return in mins.  Mins past and no return, but a phone call to say the car was playing up and he would be back ASAP.  Now I have a very hungry bird and no cat food, but I did have a can of tuna in the fridge and being that tuna was soft hoped that would do for the time being.

What fun that was, I placed tiny piece of tuna on a match stick, held the bird and shook whilst I attemted to open the sparrows beak.  Not knowing what was comming at it, the sparrow pulled back as though I was about to poison it, and thats how it continued for about an hour. 

Without any reason and by luck the little one seemed to decide that if he was going to survive he would have to help me.  From there on the two of us managed to get food into him and now he dosn´t stop calling for more.

The cat food eventually arrived and that made things a whole lot easier.

I wrote a plee for help and advise on one of the forums and within mins Chris responded with advise that I should feed every 15mins but also giving me details of a website about the rearing of baby starlings. www.starlingtalk.com/babycare.htm

It seems my little sparrow is about 7 days old and will need my help for another 5 or 6 weeks.  At this stage I am still pretty shocked he survived at all, but am almost sure he is going to fly free one day.

Hi we have added the photos we took of puppy kismet onto Facebook and you can view here.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000826&l=8cdc8&id=1336268985

As you know Kismet is now on the road to recovery and we will add those images when we get them.

Mans Best Friend - He is now

As normal the Fariground at Lefkosa will be open to celebrate Bayram, there will be various events, park rides and other entertainments.

Ramadan Bayram is being celebrated following a month of fasting.  Muslims worldwide will be celebrating the 3 day Ramadan Bayram which is also known as Seker Bayram

All Government Offices and banks will be closed throughout the Bayram holiday.

Have your sweets ready for when the children come knocking.