Old Bazaar Ankara

1. Old Bazaar Ankara oldbazaar1 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

2. Old Bazaar Ankara oldbazaar2 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

3. Old Bazaar Ankara oldbazaar3 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. 

4. Old Bazaar Ankara beadshop4 Entrance to the beadshop where I bought blue eyes. They heve thousends selection of beads to make ladies necklaces earrings etc. 

5. Old Bazaar Ankara beadshop3 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.

6. Old Bazaar Ankara beadshop2 Here is some of the beads. Most of them Made in Chine nowadays.  

7. Old Bazaar Ankara 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.

8. Old Bazaar Ankara anticcoppershop Everything in this shop are older then a century. Mostly copper with outstanding figures. They are costly. 

9. Old Bazaar Ankara souvenirshop copper pieces are very inexpensive here. There is many different kinds of souvenirs. 

10. Old Bazaar Ankara chestnut seller He cooks chestnuts on a plate and sell for living. They are very popular at oll corners next to simit sellers

11. Old Bazaar Ankara basketshop There is a selection for every use. Baskets. Most of them imported.

12. Old Bazaar Ankara basketshotel 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. 

13. Old Bazaar Ankara 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.

14. Old Bazaar Ankara 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.  

15. Old Bazaar Ankara The End THANK YOU BORAN GS GROUP OF ANKARA umitsavas2000@yahoo.com