Insiders' guide to Istanbul

There's more to the city than its many iconic monuments. Our experts reveal their favourite placesJason Goodwin, authorSahaflar Carsisi (the book market)In some ways, the book market preserves the atmosphere of the bazaar as it might have been two centuries ago, when merchants gathered by their trades, and the emphasis was not on foreign tourists. It occupies a courtyard between the Bayezid mosque and the Grand Bazaar, on the same site as the old Byzantine book and paper market. Overseen by a bu...

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