Turgutreis Weekly Market/Pazaar

Buying Olives at Turgutreis Market

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Turgutreis Market is the largest on the Peninsula, and the attached videos show the extent of this sprawling weekly market.

Directions

As you’re heading down the main road into Turgutreis towards the beach, you’ll see a Migros store on your left, and ahead of you, the Mosque on your right.  Just take one of the side streets leading of the main road before you reach the Mosque, and it’ll lead you into the quadrant where the large food section of the market is located.

(If you end up in the labyrinth of restaurants, bars and tourist trinket shops – you’ve gone too far towards the beach, and should backtrack a little East to locate the food market)

Produce Section

The produce offered by the vendors varies from a full range of in-season fruit and vegetables, to a local farmer selling goat’s milk in recycled coca-cola bottles. There’s a huge selection of local delicacies like yogurt, cheese and olives, and you can buy all the ingredients needed to make traditional Turkish Meze.

Clothing and Textile Section

The rest of the market leads away from the beach, as you head east.  Here you’ll be encased between clothing and textile stalls, and your navigation skills will taxed as you dodge the onslaught of tourists and locals.  A relaxing day out, this is not… but it’s a adventure full of local flavour, and a great way to test (and tax) your patience.

Video of the Turgutreis Produce Stalls

(My Holiday Snap version walking around the food market section)

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21 thoughts on “Turgutreis Weekly Market/Pazaar

    1. Natalie – on all of our previous trips, we’d always used Bodrum as our “main city” but this time around we went to Turgutreis for the market, a boat trip, banking stuff, and gift shopping. Finding our way about a lot more easily now. But the road between Turgutreis and Gumusluk has seen better days… hopefully they’re going to mend it soon.

      1. Thanks Jay. Yes I have lots more from our trip last June. As a video professional who never really wants to get away from his work I absolutely loved our trip and wish I could have done more video storytelling. Here’s the playlist of our Turkey vacation videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2DEA6C43E5B45C47

        I also regret not being able to yet devote the time to edit the footage into the program it will eventually become. I can’t wait to come back. I definitely want to spend more time in Gumusluk and Sirince.

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