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

Kismet the Pup would like to say thank you to all the warm kind hearted people that have taken such an interest in him over the past week.  He would like you all to know that he has now had his operation for his broken leg and may have found a home with the wonderful lady that took him in.

Although he has pins to hold the fresh break and a cast much heavier than himself he is feeling healthier than he has done for many weeks and taking everything in his stride.

He is glad that his problems has raised the topic of how everyone at some time needs a little care or help and he hopes you will all join in on the forum to post messages should you know someone in need of a little help or if you are in a position to be able to offer help.

Kismet xxx

I am about 3 months old and was about to end it all in the next couple of days.  I had just about had enough of what life had dealt me, my back leg so painful I just couldn´t use it, which meant finding my evening meal was all but impossible.  Then just as I was getting ready to give it all up a small group of ladies who were taking a break at the seaside caught a glimpse of me, hunted my breakfast, gave me a wash and a little cuddle and renewed my faith in the kindness of humans.  They even cut short  their break to take me to see the doctor and then we all travelled back to Girne.  So again I feel like I have become that happy little puppy I started out to be just 3 months ago.  OK so I am a little skinny now and still have a bit of a limp but you just watch me grow into a loveable faithfull companion.

My only problem with life now is that unfortuantely for me the ladies that showed me so much love have already homed other adorable dogs like me and are not in a position to keep me very long.  I dont want to go back to the streets, I want a friend who I can call my best friend and who I can keep and love for life.

I know there has to be someone who needs me out there,  please help me find them.

Kismet,  or whatever you feel my name should be