I've searched for about an hour, can't seem to find a pic that looks anything close to what I saw in Turkey.
So I took the liberty with the second mantis pic that Feldon shows. The one I saw looked a bit less comical, but you get the idea.
So maybe what we need after all is just the plain, old, big green mantis, we are all use to seeing every summer throught the USA.
No sense in scarring little kids when they see this thing pounce out