After Turkey’s annus horribilis, tourism has slumped in the world’s oldest shopping mall
Zia Weise, Istanbul
19 January 2017 • 1:14pm
Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar has received a multitude of famous visitors since it opened half a millennium ago, and the Adnan and Hasan carpet shop is no exception. By the shop till, besides towers of hand-knotted rugs and Anatolian kilims, a strip of photographs show dignitaries and ambassadors posing with the vendors.
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