20061029 Eyes at Besiktas FC

Sunday 29 October 2006 NPP were invited to the Besiktas vs. Sakaryaspor football match courtesy of Erkan Ulusel of By Sound http://www.bysound.net/

The Besiktas team stood for a pre-match photo wearing
Ataturk's Eyes and Peace at Home, Peace in the World
superimposed upon their team football jerseys, in honour of the day's national celebrations.

Besiktas supporter Demet with her own Besiktas shirt...


Besiktas enter the stage wearing the Peace shirts...



The teams line up for the photo...



...which appears Sabah Newspaper as a half page, too big for me scan, so here's the same shot in Fanatik newpaper showing the team adorning the Eyes...


Below, Erkan holds up a Besiktas-Eyes shirt...



Back at Taksim, the eyes and the flag inter-phase...


Demet with her Cola Turk Besiktas shirt with The Eyes over Taksim behind...


The next day 30 October, several newspapers mentioned the Eyes shirts. Unfortunately the emphasis was on Besiktas' woeful 0-0 performance and the aggressive post-match actions of supporters protesting the club's executive management. So much for Peace at Home!

20061029 Eyes Over Taksim

Demet and I had attended the Besiktas 0-0 draw that evening and returned via Taksim Square where The Eyes were beaming through the night...

20061027 Eyes at ATU

ATU commissioned a painting of Ataturk's Eyes to be installed within their shopping area at the new Esenboga Airport at Ankara; just here...


The painting was started 14 October 2006 and completed 27 October. The stages of progress are chronicled at Latest Painting

The painting was photographed by Mehmet Mutaf at Viz Tanitim...


This photo shows the temporary reproduction put in place before the original painting arrived.......

...which is somewhere here...


The Eyes waited for collection at The Marmara Pera...