This shop has been in the family for so long that Dr. Süleyman (a real medical doctor) proudly displays the firman, or order of Sultan Abdülhamid II -- the equivalent to a license to operate. But that's not even his claim to fame: When a team with the film Troy was looking for period textiles, particularly woolens, they came here.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Istanbul, 1st Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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