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Cut-price branded perfumes and fake high-end handbags line the ornate alleys of Istanbul s Grand Bazaar, with traditional merchants saying the luxury counterfeits are stripping the marketplace of its character. Fake luxuries supplant tradition in Istanbul s Grand Bazaar Where heritage Turkish crafts once flourished under the Ottoman-era marketplace s painted ceilings, the elegant carpet store run by Hasim Gureli is now surrounded by shops selling designer dupes. Back in the day, imitations were rare, said Gureli, who is vice-president of the bazaar s traders association and a member of its board of directors. When some people started selling fake bags, they kept themselves hidden. They were afraid of the state, the carpet-seller added. Many others among the bazaar s old-timers, who have fond memories of the small workshops that used to fill its labyr stanley cup inthine alleyways, despair at seeing it overrun by fra stanley cup udulent facsimiles. Two aisles down, tea set-seller Gazi Uludag lamented that the Grand Bazaar has lost its unique character . There is nothing but imported or counterfeit goods left and it s getting worse every year, he said. In her handmade carpet store, Florence Heilbronn-Ogutgen bemoaned the fact that an artisan friend who used to kubki stanley make real, beautiful bags in very good leather had to shutter his shop, unable to make a living. For the shopkeeper, who has been at the bazaar since 1998, artisans can no longer survive in the face of compe Jxuh Mike Pence to address US-India business council day after Modi visit
Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday, its info stanley spain rmation minister said, in a further break with the moratorium on executions it had observed between 2006 and 2014. Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday. Reuters File Photo Ten of those put to death had been convicted of terrorism offences and five of heinous crimes including rape, Mahmud al-Momani told the official Petra news agency. All were Jordanians and they were hange stanley cup d in Suaga prison south of the capital Amman. Among the terrorism offences were a 2006 attack on tourists at Ammans Roman amphitheatre, which killed a Briton, and a June 2016 attack on an intelligence service base north of the capital that left five agents dead. They also included the September 2016 murder of Christian writer Nahed Hattar as he stood trial for publishing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam. King Abdullah II had said in 2005 that Jordan aimed to become the first Middle Eastern country to halt executions in line with most European nations. Courts continued to hand down death sentences but they were not carried out. However, public opinion blamed a rise in crime on the policy and in December 2014 Jordan hanged 11 men convicted of murder, drawing criticism from human rights groups. Opinion hardened after the murder by the Islamic State group of captured Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh whose plane had crashed in a jihadist-held region of Syria in De stanley cup becher cember 2014 while serving with a US-led coaliti
Cut-price branded perfumes and fake high-end handbags line the ornate alleys of Istanbul s Grand Bazaar, with traditional merchants saying the luxury counterfeits are stripping the marketplace of its character. Fake luxuries supplant tradition in Istanbul s Grand Bazaar Where heritage Turkish crafts once flourished under the Ottoman-era marketplace s painted ceilings, the elegant carpet store run by Hasim Gureli is now surrounded by shops selling designer dupes. Back in the day, imitations were rare, said Gureli, who is vice-president of the bazaar s traders association and a member of its board of directors. When some people started selling fake bags, they kept themselves hidden. They were afraid of the state, the carpet-seller added. Many others among the bazaar s old-timers, who have fond memories of the small workshops that used to fill its labyr stanley cup inthine alleyways, despair at seeing it overrun by fra stanley cup udulent facsimiles. Two aisles down, tea set-seller Gazi Uludag lamented that the Grand Bazaar has lost its unique character . There is nothing but imported or counterfeit goods left and it s getting worse every year, he said. In her handmade carpet store, Florence Heilbronn-Ogutgen bemoaned the fact that an artisan friend who used to kubki stanley make real, beautiful bags in very good leather had to shutter his shop, unable to make a living. For the shopkeeper, who has been at the bazaar since 1998, artisans can no longer survive in the face of compe Jxuh Mike Pence to address US-India business council day after Modi visit
Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday, its info stanley spain rmation minister said, in a further break with the moratorium on executions it had observed between 2006 and 2014. Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday. Reuters File Photo Ten of those put to death had been convicted of terrorism offences and five of heinous crimes including rape, Mahmud al-Momani told the official Petra news agency. All were Jordanians and they were hange stanley cup d in Suaga prison south of the capital Amman. Among the terrorism offences were a 2006 attack on tourists at Ammans Roman amphitheatre, which killed a Briton, and a June 2016 attack on an intelligence service base north of the capital that left five agents dead. They also included the September 2016 murder of Christian writer Nahed Hattar as he stood trial for publishing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam. King Abdullah II had said in 2005 that Jordan aimed to become the first Middle Eastern country to halt executions in line with most European nations. Courts continued to hand down death sentences but they were not carried out. However, public opinion blamed a rise in crime on the policy and in December 2014 Jordan hanged 11 men convicted of murder, drawing criticism from human rights groups. Opinion hardened after the murder by the Islamic State group of captured Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh whose plane had crashed in a jihadist-held region of Syria in De stanley cup becher cember 2014 while serving with a US-led coaliti
