Art-market Ortikoy Part2: hand-made

This is our friend Alp-Arslan. He was a an excellent host for us and we're very grateful. He gave the idea to try to sell my pictures on Ortikoy market.

No problem, we did so. Although I couldn't sell anything, we finally found the way to get rid of my pictures=))

This is what is sold on the market. Most of the things are real hand-made item but some of them are made in China.

Looks like they like miniature things (like those bikes) here

These are amazing small houses with fine made details. The master is siting right here making a new one.

Ataturk is everywhere...

He's on the magnets next to Che Gevara

He teaches the kids to write their first letters

He's in the old bookshop 

It's difficult not to see him. Ataturk is deep in the Turks' hearts.

This is a significant picture: in the evening we passed Hairetdin (Fridrich) Barbarossa's tomb and decided to make a picture. At the same time Alp-Arslan took a bicycle from one kid and started making different figures on it...I was very suprised to see that=)

So, we like Istambul very much. Now we're on the way to Samsun and then will go to Trapzon to get visa to Iran.