Tuesday, March 08, 2005

2005 Sabiha Gokcen

March 8th is celebrated as Women’s Day in Turkey. To commemorate this NPP produced a portrait of Sabiha Gokcen; the world's first combat pilot...


Ali Koc purchased the portrait and presented it to Gulsah Celiker in recognition of a TV film documentary she had produced about Sabiha.





In this article you can still see the rainbow colours in the painting. I was later advised to paint them out for fear of offending some one. How one is offended by rainbow colours is not clear, but when in foreign parts do as the Romans do etc...How silly and I should have left the rainbow colours as they were in the photo below...



http://www.turkeycentral.com/articles/turkey_article.php?article_id=78