We have been posted to Ankara, Turkey, twice -- from 1996 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2006. I have many pictures online from our second posting at http://www.pbase.com/helenpb/return_to_ankara and http://www.pbase.com/helenpb/istanbul_revisited as well as at http://www.pbase.com/helenpb/the_wonders_of_turkeys_cappadocia and http://www.pbase.com/helenpb/western_turkey_odyssey_in_progress after I got into digital, but none from our first tour there, when we traveled much of the country, including to the Southeast, the East and the Black Sea region. I finally found some print pictures that I had scanned from that time, while we were in Okinawa, in 2001. I started to post the old scans, but they were not so good, and I found I had also neglected some pictures that should go in the gallery, so I bought an Epson V39 for $79 and redid all the images (just what I did NOT want to do ;-)).

This is Rizvaniye Mosque in Şanlıurfa, also known as Urfa, located in Turkey's Southeast and reputed in Jewish and Muslim tradition to be the home of the prophet Abraham. According to tradition, Mesopotamian “king” Nimrod had Abraham immolated on a funeral pyre, but God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish. "Abraham’s Pool” remains to this day.

Covered in cobwebs, posted earlier: