Springs in Turkey

There is a tradition in rural Turkey of honoring a loved one who has passed on by building a tiled roadside spring.  This seems to me to be a very nice way to memorialize someone.

There is a picture of me in this blog standing next to one of these roadside "springs."  Actually the water is piped to the location next to the road from some distance away.  This particular spring supplies water to a tea house on the other side of the road which is famous for being the meeting place of Kemal Attaturk and the Shah of Iran in the 1930's.  There is a similar spring nearby known locally as "iron melter spring"  because the pH of the water is naturally very low, and it wreaks havoc with the iron pipes in the nearby village.