Lake Gökpınar

In Turkish, the word “gök” means both the sky and the clearest shade of blue. But can a lake do more than reflect the sky, and make the sky’s color its own? When those who named this lake looked into the water, did they see the sky, or the sky fallen to earth? Everyone who gazes at Lake Gökpınar, in the Gürün district of Sivas, gives this question an answer of their own…