The Black Fortress of Opium – a town in Mordor

Here is the black fortress:

The central feature of Afyon.

…and here’s the opium.

Large areas of Afyon are used for cultivation of pharmaceutical opiates.

Towards Eskişehir, there are frequent reminders of the Phrygian civilisation.

Kümbet

Aslankaya

This is the scene near Kümbet in the early 1990s.

Kümbet

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