If you simply have to have a set of those white copper hamam bowls or a copper platter for a table à la Turque, root around the slightly disheveled stalls near the book bazaar. That is, if you aren't going to Ankara, where copper is king.

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

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