Market Women in Ankara, Turkey

You can read about street markets in
Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City by John Cross.

You can read about this fascinating area in

Market Women in Akcakoca, Turkey
Pictures and Text by Hanife Aliefendioglu
(Eastern Mediterranean University)
(March 1998)
Edited by John Cross

	The Akcakoca market is in located in Akcakoca, a secondary city of the Black Sea Province of Duzce. Compared to street markets, it is in quite good condition, and has a special "women's" section in which each marketwoman has her own stall.
The women are located in a section called "koylu pazari" meaning "villager/peasant market," thast meets every Tuesday. During the market rush hour things get a bit hectic.
	This is an openair market nearby. The man in the blue shirt (center) is a local official collecting the weekly fees from each seller. Women are very rarely seen selling on the streets.
The market women live in their villages which are not so very far from town center. Almost every family has a motor vehicle, truck or car, etc. They prepare their products one or two days before the weekly market (every tuesday) and carry them to the market place.
	The women still live a very traditional lifestyle, and typically the husbands drop off and pick up their wives in their trucks or cars. They may also control the money the woman has earned in the day.
A Marketwoman in a traditional Black Sea dress.
	Getting ready to leave at closing time
A Marketwoman entices the author: "Let me give you these plums for a reasonable price."
	A Marketwoman with 30 years experience.

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