{"id":37836,"date":"2011-07-19T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=37836"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:08:00","slug":"buying-gold-try-istanbuls-grand-bazaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/07\/19\/buying-gold-try-istanbuls-grand-bazaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying gold? Try Istanbul\u2019s Grand Bazaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these austere economic times, many have sought refuge for their savings in gold.<\/p>\n<p>Gold rose to record highs last week but it\u2019s not just on the financial markets where people are looking to protect their wealth.<\/p>\n<p>In Istanbul\u2019s Grand Bazaar, traders have been buying and selling gold since 1461, the early days of the Ottoman Empire. Its shops attract between 250,000 and half a million visitors annually.<\/p>\n<p>One Moroccan tourist on a visit to the market told euronews the quality of gold varies from one store to another, but the prices are usually good. \u201cNevertheless, I always negotiate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 22 billion euros worth of gold is traded at the Grand Bazaar each year.<\/p>\n<p>Bora Bayraktar, Euronews\u2019 correspondent in Istanbul said \u201cGrand Bazaar is one of the important places where gold has been exchanged for 550 years. Even today, daily 2.5 tonnes of junk gold is brought here for processing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 euronews<\/p>\n<p>via <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.net\/2011\/07\/16\/buying-gold-try-istanbul-s-grand-bazaar\/\">Buying gold? Try Istanbul\u2019s Grand Bazaar | euronews, world news<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these austere economic times, many have sought refuge for their savings in gold. Gold rose to record highs last week but it\u2019s not just on the financial markets where people are looking to protect their wealth. In Istanbul\u2019s Grand Bazaar, traders have been buying and selling gold since 1461, the early days of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[1471,4218],"class_list":["post-37836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-gold","tag-grand-bazaar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}