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Akyurt
Founded in Ankara's Kavaklıdere district in 1929, this is a private Turkish winery, with vineyards across the country. It is known for indigenous-grape wines and its Kavaklıdere 1929 premium range.
Best for Turkish wine, heritage vintages, gifts
İstiklal Caddesi, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Atlas Pasajı is a historic Beyoğlu arcade containing separate shops, cultural venues and cafés. It is a place-level destination, not one merchant with a shared inventory or retail operator.
Best for Vintage records, books and cafés inside historic Atlas Pasajı
Balat, Fatih, Istanbul
Balat is a historic Istanbul neighbourhood known for colourful houses, cafés, vintage shops and galleries. It is an area itinerary rather than one merchant, and no official URL is supplied.
Best for Vintage shops, design studios, cafés, and colorful historic streets
İç Bedesten, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
The historic core of the Grand Bazaar — a section, built in 1461 and now home to antique dealers, carpet shops, and jewelry artisans.
Best for Antiques, carpets and jewellery in the Grand Bazaar’s oldest section
Moda, Kadıköy, Istanbul
Moda takes its name from the English families, bureaucrats and artists who lived here in the 19th century. Its streets now mix antique and vintage shops with tea gardens, cafés and restaurants.
Best for Vintage shops and independent third-wave coffee roasters along Kadıköy's bohemian Moda strip
The shopping streets around Moda, on Istanbul's Asian side in the Kadikoy district, have built a reputation less around any single anchor store than around density: a run of vintage clothing shops, antique dealers, independent record stores, and coffee roasters concentrated on streets like Tellalzade Sokak and the backstreets running toward Moda's seafront. The coffee side of that mix is unusually deep for a single neighborhood -- Cekirdek, generally credited as the first specialty coffee shop on Istanbul's Asian side, sits alongside newer roasters including Walter's Coffee Roastery, known for its science-lab-styled interior, Story Coffee Roasters in nearby Caferaga, and Cherrybean Coffees, which imports raw green beans and roasts them in-house rather than buying pre-roasted stock. Elsewhere in the broader Kadikoy market district, some family coffee sellers have worked the same street corners since the 1920s, giving the area a coffee-trading history that predates the current wave of independent roasters by nearly a century. The result is a strip better understood as a browsing route than a single destination: vintage and antique shopping threaded between small, independently run coffee roasters, in a neighborhood that has kept its residential, unhurried character even as Kadikoy around it has become one of Istanbul's busier districts.
Nakilbent Sokak, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey
Two men both named Cengiz, who met working in an Istanbul rug shop, opened Galeri Cengiz in the Arasta Bazaar in 1989 and relaunched it as Nakkaş in 2004 after moving to Nakilbent Sokak behind the Hippodrome. The gallery now holds more than 20,000 carpets and kilims, spanning antique Hereke, Konya, Kayseri, and Bergama weaves alongside contemporary pieces made with traditional techniques.
Best for Turkish carpets and kilims
Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
Sinbad Carpet sells hand-woven vintage rugs, kilim rugs and overdyed carpets from its shop in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, Fatih. It also takes custom orders for contemporary area rugs and Oriental carpets.
Best for Grand bazaar rugs and kilims
Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Founded in 1976, Sofa Art & Antiques has built its name on a curated stock of Ottoman and Anatolian paintings, sculpture, calligraphy, jewelry, and ceramics rather than volume antiques-market inventory. The shop operates from Şahkulu Seraskerci Çıkmazı in Beyoğlu and ships internationally through its own multilingual site.
Best for Curated Ottoman and Anatolian antiques
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