ANTALYA (AA) – Knife sharpening masters continue to work as part of the preparations for the sacrifice on the eve of Eid al-Adha in Antalya. 66-year-old Mehmet Şakar, who works as a knife maker in the city center, told the AA correspondent that his grandfather and father were also in the same profession, and that he started working with his father at the age of 7. Stating that he has been doing this job for years, Şakar stated that cleaver and knife sharpening increased before the holiday.
Stating that he sharpens approximately 30 to 40 knives on normal days, Şakar noted that this number increased to 250-300 per day before Eid al-Adha. Şakar said, “Eid al-Adha is a costly affair. They should let someone who knows how to sharpen their knives do it. Especially those who will slaughter their own sacrifice should have their work done cleanly.” he said. On the other hand, it was stated that the work to prepare the cleavers and cutting equipment in the knife shops will continue until the evening hours.
11The water discharged from a height of 173 meters at the Karakaya Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant (HEPP) in Çüngüş district of Diyarbakır turned into a visual feast. The amount of water in the basin of Karakaya Dam and HEPP, Turkey’s third largest dam and second largest hydroelectric power plant, reached 9.5 billion cubic meters with heavy rainfall. In the Karakaya Dam and HEPP, which has an installed capacity of 1800 megawatts with a total of 6 units, 2 discharge gates of the dam were opened in the first place on May 11, after 7 years, against the risk of possible floods due to the water level approaching the maximum level.
The discharge of pressurized water from the dam set, whose body height is 173 meters, turned into a visual feast. Rainbows occasionally form in the region due to sunlight.
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