In front of the New Mosque is a pigeon-plagued plaza busy with itinerant street sellers and dominated on its south side by the high brick arch leading into...

This vast open-air market surrounds the Fatih Mosque and fills its rambling courtyard. Join the headscarved crowds ever Wednesday to tussle over...

There are 5,500-odd vendors in the Grand Bazaar. Shopkeepers cajole and entreat passers-by in a dozen languages, determined not to permit visitors to...

Istanbul's answer to London's Camden Market. Go for mounds of tacky jewellery and plentiful kitsch imported from India and Africa. You might also happen to...

This is the best-known, biggest and most popular of the city's street markets, so be prepared to mix it up with middle-class matrons and beetle-browed...

With a rather hard-to-find entrance across from the Dutch consulate at 393 Istiklal Caddesi, this pasaj has piles and piles of clothing at rock-bottom...

It may be sited in a sophisticated neighbourhood but don't expect a genteel crowd. This is the place for knock-off designer labels and an upmarket range of...