Mt. NEMRUT
A woman doesn't let the fact she can't walk stop her from ascending 8,000-foot Nemrut Dag, taking a donkey past a relief of a now headless god.

NEMRUT DAG, November 20, 2002
Lucy Boyd and Katherine Cluxton Sunset on Mount Nemrut in southeast Turkey. » Read the story

NEMRUT DAG, November, 2002
Sunset on Mount Nemrut in southeast Turkey. » Read the story

NEMRUT DAG, November, 2002
Sunset on Mount Nemrut in southeast Turkey highlights the deep scars inflicted on soft stone sculptures by 3,000 years of extreme temperatures and weather atop the mountain. » Read the story

Malatya, November, 2002
The interior lights from Malatya's jewelry district gives the commercial district a distinct golden glow. » Read the story

Mardin, May, 2002
A street sweeper works at dawn in the old city of Mardin, near the Turkey/Syria border. » Read the story

Mardin, May, 2002
In southeastern Turkey, ancient traditions live on. A good smoke with friends in Mardin's all-male tea and coffee houses is a cornerstone of daily life. » Read the story

Mardin, May, 2002
The Mesopotamian Plain runs from Turkey into Iraq and Syria. It's the bread basket of the Middle East, producing wheat and other crops year-round. Here, a wheat farmer near Mardin takes a break from the spring harvest. » Read the story

Mardin, May, 2002
Southeastern Turkey, Iraq and Syria have concentrations of Christian communities dating back to the 1st Century AD. In Mardin, Surianis boys display a Bible written in Aramaic — the language of Jesus.
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Mardin, May, 2002
A shepherd tends his flock outside the walls of a mountainside Suriani monastery in Mardin, on the edge of the Mesopotamian plain.
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Mt. NEMRUT , Adıyaman
November 2002,
A traveler from New Zealand leans back on ancient reliefs as she savors the sunset atop Mount Nemrut in southeast Turkey.