Şahinkaya Canyon

Can a town take its name from a vizier? That is exactly how Vezirköprü’s name was born. Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, the grand vizier who pulled the shaken Ottoman state back together in the 17th century, spent his youth in this town, then known simply as Köprü, “the Bridge,” and took his byname from it. Later the town, as if repaying a debt of names, came to be called Vezirköprü…