Akşehir

One day Nasreddin Hodja came to a lakeshore with a bowl of yogurt starter and began stirring it into the water. Onlookers asked, “Hodja, what are you doing?” “Making yogurt of the lake.” “But Hodja, can a lake ever turn into yogurt?” The Hodja replied, perfectly serious: “What if it does!” The story goes that the lake the Hodja seeded was Lake Akşehir…