Avanos & Kızılırmak

How many thousands of years of memory can a handful of clay hold? Step into a pottery workshop in Avanos and watch the master at his foot-turned wheel, and you will see the answer in the jug rising between his fingers… For in this town the clay comes from the banks of the Kızılırmak; and the Kızılırmak is one of the rivers that carry Anatolia’s oldest stories.