(1/2) In Balıklıgöl, Şanliurfa, Turkey, two women stop to appreciate the carp at the holy site known as “Abraham’s Lake”, where in Abrahmic religious legends is believed to be the site Nimrod cast Abraham into fire. Today, Balıklıgöl remains not only a religious site, but a pleasant green space for families to enjoy, especially in the arid and blistering summers characterizing this region.

(2/2) In Kayaköy, or Leivissi in it’s native Greek, remains a solemn monumnent to the Greek-Turkish population exchange of 1923, a mass displacement event in which Greek residents of the newly established Republic of Turkey were displaced from their ancestral lands to the newly independent Greek state, and Turkish residents of Greece were forcibly displaced to the new Turkish Republic. The village remains a ghost town today, showing the scars left behind by population exchance and ethnonationalism.