Simitci, a simit seller, with his handcart outside the Kapali Carsi, the covered bazaar in Istanbul. The entire remaining stock will have a value of less than £5. Small wonder he looks doleful. (Photograph, Philip Iddison, as are the illustrations to his article, below.)
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