Not nearly as windy as it was landside, but clearly rough at sea. What I grew up - like most Northern Americans - calling whitecaps, the British usually refer to as white horses. And New Zealanders call sheep. As do the French - in French obviously - moutons. Can see why they might resemble sheep in a distant field but rearing stallions seems more appropriate for a tumultuous sea. Photo from our flat not ideal, but unwilling to walk a kilometre down to the shore to get a better shot.
The Turkish lira fell sharply yesterday, against all other currencies, but partially recovered almost immediately - not quite back to original values but approaching them. The reason is obvious but a bit difficult to get accurate detailed information on. President Erdoğan has had the Mayor of Istanbul and about a hundred protesters arrested. Mayor Imamoğlu was apparently about to be nominated to run for the presidency, although that of course is not the reason given. He has been accused of corruption - a standard charge among warring factions. Also his university degree has been revoked on the grounds that he began it in the TRNC before transferring to the University of Istanbul. (So we have the local angle). This is particularly serious because it is necessary to have a university degree in order to become president in Türkiye.
After years of the revoking of university degrees being extremely rare it seems that the procedure has become a weapon of choice, and not only in countries with a dodgy history of democracy. In the past revoking a degree would have happened only if it had been obtained by false pretences - cheating on exams, plagiarising theses, altering transcripts. Now it seems that engaging in political protests not in line with the financial sponsors of an Ivy League university can put a well earned degree at risk. As governments and policies change different graduate demographics could be at risk. Will succeeding governments restore degrees revoked by their predecessors? How far back will they go? Those who have had or performed abortions? Draft dodgers? I had ancestors on both sides of the American Revolution. Does that mean protection or extreme risk?