"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." So says Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) to a young Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in 1977's "Star Wars: A New Hope." He was talking, of ...

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Academy Award-winning Hollywood star Michael Douglas visited Istanbul's historic Grand Bazaar on Monday. The 75-year-old actor was accompanied by his children Dylan, 19, and Carys, 16, during the ...

Shoppers walk down a corridor in Istanbul's fabled Grand Bazaar. Bob Krist/Corbis Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar is the world’s most-visited tourist attraction—a cacophony of haggling vendors and tempting ...

Turkish shopkeepers stand in their Aladdin's cave of mystery in one of the oldest covered markets in the world. Istanbul's Grand Bazaar hosts more than 3,000 stores and these pictures show just why ...

As historic buildings face being turned into hotels, the pursuit of tourist dollars will destroy what visitors come to see, say tenants of ancient market In Instanbul’s Grand Bazaar, where eager ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday hailed the restoration of Istanbul's historic Spice Bazaar, located near the iconic Sultanahmet Mosque and Hagia Sophia Museum. "This historic peninsula ...