Istanbul has been a top choice for shoppers for more than 1,500 years, famed as the trading point connecting the Silk Road from China with Europe.Shopping in Istanbul is often a huge part of any visit, and the city’s famous historical bazaars offer a wonderful insight into city life.

Whether shopping for carpets, spices, vegetables or clothes, the process of making your purchase is likely to be enhanced by the atmosphere of wandering through the crowded stalls - and of course haggling. Turkish leather and textile products reflecting the latest fashion are attracting the visitors of malls with reasonable prices. Also silver and gold jewellery with precious stones are most popular items of shopping in Turkey. The most well-known shopping center The Grand Bazaar of Istanbul. The Spice Bazaar is also in the neighborhood.

Grand Bazaar Apart from the usual shops selling clothes, textiles, jewellry and carpets, there are small workshops where craftsmen cast and beat silver or brass, in a skilled trade handed down through the generations. If all that shopping, bargaining and fending off persuasive salesmen is a little too tiring, there are also traditional cafes dotted inside the bazaar in which to relax, eat and sip tea. There are also money-changing booths inside and out.

Likewise, the famous Spice Bazaar in Eminönü is a must see, if only for the mountains of Turkish delight and its busy surrounding streets selling delicious olives, cheeses and dried fruits.

Istanbul also has a number of wholesale shopping places, such as Osmanbey next to the Nisantası, and Merter Area.

Turkish Assistance aim is to help you get just the right items that you want.

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