Hikmet Sirlak cannot think of doing anything else in life other than selling carpets. “I have been living in this area since 1973 and I had to go through this street in the bazaar to go to school.

Many carpet businesses in Istanbul have folded. It's especially noticeable in the city's Grand Bazaar, one of the oldest and largest covered markets in the world. "There were a lot of carpet shops ...

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