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. They're an odd size (and hard to resize without distorting them) and not great, but I'd like to document our first years there, so decided to make a gallery of them to which I’ll be adding when I can.

The gate to the Hasan Paşa 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. I had previously identified this as the entrance to the bazaar, which could still lie beyond the gate, but I re-scanned the image and can now read the sign on the wall, which indicates the mosque.

Rizvaniye Mosque, posted earlier: