How fantasy fans are keeping a Turkish blacksmithing tradition alive

Omer has spent most of his life here. He describes a chain of blacksmiths stretching back generations.

"My father's master's master was an apprentice here during the Greek occupation,” he says, referring to the Greek occupation of Izmir between 1919 and 1922. “Then came my father's master, my father, myself, and now my son."

The workshop's history predates the Akde...