Allegedly
Ourfa, Summer 1915
Khatoun
Ourfa, the Eye of Mesopotamia. Situated at the crossroads of ancient highways, it nestles in the warm, fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; the cradle of civilization. According to legend it was the first city to re-emerge in the world after the Great Flood. The birthplace of Abraham. The spot where Nimrod, the Babylonian King, later flung Abraham onto a burning pyre for refusing to worship pagan gods. Where Jehovah intervened, turning those flames into pools of water and the coals into sacred fish – still alive and swimming in the pleasant Dergah gardens to this day. To the north and west lie the barren limestone foothills of the Anatolian massif with its distant, fortress-like villages clinging to its precipitous sides. To the so
