Şanliurfa, Turkey  —  Under the shadow of a centuries-old castle in Şanlıurfa, in southeastern Turkey, black-spotted golden carp swim in turquoise pools. Tradition holds they were created after Mesopotamian king Nemrut bin Kenan threw the Prophet Ibrahim into a fire burning on the plain below, sometime in the third millennium BCE. Preaching against idolatry and … The post The ‘city of prophets’ where three religions align appeared first on Egypt Independent .