Transcript Old Bazaar Ankara

Old Bazaar Ankara
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Clothing and everyting for moderate budgets sold here. This is
a regular saturday crowd. Days before religious festivals it is
impossible to walk around here
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Another view of old bazaar. This is Chikrickcilar street. In old
bazaars every street have the name of a profession. chikrickci
means the people make round things on a lathe
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There is moderately modern shops too, where you see old and new together. Watch
the red brownish dresses at the left of the window. They called Bindalli dress. Young
women sometime wear them for special occasions like weddings. Bindallı means with
thousend branches of a tree. Figures are gold needle work of branches and leaves of
different trees. Almost every province in Turkey have different traditional costumes but
bindalli is everywhere. It is the most top one.
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Entrance to the beadshop where I bought blue eyes.
They heve thousends selection of beads to make
ladies necklaces earrings etc.
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Beads also used to make a religius item. It is called Tespih. It is a
counter. Some very keen religious people make same pray many
times and use tespih to coubnt them. I don't know why but they have
all 33 beads.
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Here is some of the beads. Most of them Made in
Chine nowadays.
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clothshop
They sell traditional textiles. There is wool socks at far
right. What is the cloth with figures on left. Don't Ask
me. I forget to ask them.
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anticcoppershop
Everything in this shop are older then a century. Mostly
copper with outstanding figures. They are costly.
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souvenirshop
copper pieces are very inexpensive here.
There is many different kinds of souvenirs.
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chestnut seller
He cooks chestnuts on a plate and sell for living. They are very
popular at oll corners next to simit sellers
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basketshop
There is a selection for every use. Baskets.
Most of them imported.
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More baskets on display and Yelllow part of building is a hotel.
There is Hilton Sheraton and some others in Ankara. This small
one named Hazer. It is a lake at East of Turkey. The price is
about 2-3 USD a night.
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scalesshop
Today all supermarkets groceries are using electronic scales.
But this traditional shop of old balance scales still in business.
They don't need expensive service calls too.
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This is the story of old bazaar of
Ankara. The Covered Bazaar (Kapali
Carsi) in Istanbul is the biggest and
most famous of them. Some parts of
it became focused to tourist but
there is still streets in it with many
traditional shops. of different
professions like ladies hat makers,
young girls hat makers, uniform hat
makers, hat makers for children, hat
makers for religious people,
industrial hat makers etc. This is
just an example of varieties. You
name it they have it.
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The End
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