Yenituran Primary school Ankara, TURKEY

e-twinning Project: e-twinning Project: 2012-20132012-2013

"I am 2: in search of our historical identity ..."

The story of the king of the castle or historical building of the city-origins-part I

LEGEND OF FISH LAKE in URFA Nemrut is a ruler who spreads terror and fear all around.

One night he asks for an interpretation of his dream. He learns one of the children born that year will kill him and commands that all the children born be killed. Sara, mother of the Prophet Abraham, gives birth to her child in a cave, leaves him there and goes home. A gazelle nurses the baby. After awhile, soldiers find Abraham in the cave. Nemrut, who never had a child, decides to take care of Abraham. Witnessing the horror of Nemrut forcing his people to worship statues, when everyone

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leaves for a ceremony, Ibrahim enters the area of statues in the palace and breaks all the statues with an axe, finally leaving the axe in the hands of the largest statue.During his trial, Abraham protests his innocence, saying ?You see the axe is in the hands of the big statue; probably he is the one who did it.? Furious, Nemrut shouts, ?How can a piece of stone take an axe and do this?? Ibrahim replies; ?If he is a real God, why can?t he do it?? Infuriated, Nemrut commands Abraham to be thrown into the fire. Although Zeliha, daughter of Nemrut, begs for mercy, she can?t convince her dad.

Wood is piled up in the area of ?Halil-ul Rahman Lake? and the fire is set. The place where the Prophet Abraham fell into the fire becomes a lake and a rose garden and the woods become fishes. Zeliha throws herself into the fire after Abraham and the place becomes known as Aynzeliha Lake…

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