{"id":37832,"date":"2011-07-19T03:16:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T00:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=37832"},"modified":"2023-04-06T08:34:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:34:49","slug":"solo-turk-won-top-flying-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/07\/19\/solo-turk-won-top-flying-award\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSolo Turk\u201d Won Top Flying Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-37833\" title=\"Soloturk_awarduk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Soloturk_awarduk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Soloturk_awarduk.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Soloturk_awarduk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Soloturk_awarduk-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Turkish air force pilot won the top flying award at this year&#8217;s Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in the UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top award is the King Hussein Memorial Sword &#8211; presented in memory of the\u00a0late HM King Hussein of Jordan, Patron of the International Air Tattoo (1983-1989) &#8211; and is awarded for the best overall flying demonstration.\u00a0 This year it went to\u00a0Maj Murat Keles, flying the F-16C \u201cSolo Turk\u201d from 141<sup>st<\/sup> Sqn, Turkish Air Force.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Major Keles is pictured below receiving his award.<\/p>\n<p>Maj Keles said: \u201cI am very happy. It is wonderful to receive this award in the first year of our display and in the same year as we celebrate 100 years of the Turkish Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sword was presented by\u00a0Major General Malek Habashnah, Commander Royal Jordanian Air Force\u00a0, on behalf of HRH Lt Gen Prince Faisal.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Arabian Aerospace<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish air force pilot won the top flying award at this year&#8217;s Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in the UK. The top award is the King Hussein Memorial Sword &#8211; presented in memory of the\u00a0late HM King Hussein of Jordan, Patron of the International Air Tattoo (1983-1989) &#8211; and is awarded for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":37833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939,244,845,3996,89,94,922],"tags":[6476,9746,6475,6473,6477,9732,6474],"class_list":["post-37832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","category-jordan","category-scitech","category-sport","category-turkey","category-uk","category-world","tag-f-16c","tag-jordan","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo","tag-solo-turk","tag-turkish-air-force","tag-uk","tag-won-top-flying-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}