Turkey provides many opportunities for buying your holiday souvenirs and gifts and offers today the best prices on many products. The most popular products to buy in Turkey are pottery, ceramics, paintings and other handcrafted items. Offcourse we should not forget Turkish delights such as Lokum, Pismaniye, kestane sekeri as a gift, many people know the taste of it, and in the meantime Turkish Delight has found its fans throughout the world.

Turkish Towels

Many people know, that Turkish towels are the ultimate in luxury. These unbelievably soft and cushiony towels are a temptation. Not only are Turkish towels thick, heavy and cozy but also bulky, which makes it truly a hard job to be carried around. It happens lots of times, that people have to buy an extra suitcase, because they have bought a few of these wonderful towels. A Turkish towel is not only an item of luxury than of utility and though it may sound vain but surrendering to this extravagance often gets the better of you.

Turkish towels will surely give you that special after bath feeling with its smooth and thick softness. As one of the largest producers of cotton and also the largest weavers of cotton cloth, Turkey has a leading position in this field.

Textile homes such as bed linen, curtain also are qualified inTurkey. An important example is Tac Linen. Tac linen is one of the most known and best in Turkey in its field. Not only quality and service, but also the very wide variety of products in their portfolio is amazing. If one should compare prices with the same products in Europe, you can see that Turkeys quality and price are very reasonable.

Nazar Boncugu (Evil Eye)

Probably evey cultur has its own superstitions, so has Turkey. In every culture you will find people who take recourse to charms and talismans. In Turkey the Turkish Evil Eye Pendants or the "nazar boncugu" has the honour of keeping at bay the ills brought on by envious and greedy eyes. Throughout the ages, lyrics have been penned and songs have been written, but the Turks believe that these very beautiful eyes become the harbingers of misfortune and doom when they turn towards you with greed and envy.

This belief rests not only in Turkey, but also among the people of the Mediterranean countries as well as in the Indian sub-continent. Legend has that that this belief had its genesis amongst the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians. The belief in the Evil Eye may have originated with the Oriental people, but beliefs like this in some form or the other is present in every culture of the world. Thus you yourself, on countless occasions, became cautious when you didn't like the look in the other person's eyes. It is believed that the Nazar Boncugu deflects the negative energy, thus dispersing its powers. The Nazar Boncugu is blue in color and it is believed, that it is the actual blue color of the stone, which holds the real shielding power and absorbs the negative energy. Since evil can be everywhere, thehe evil eye pendant is attached everywhere, f.e.: in front of a house or office, around the neck of a newborn child, or even on farm animals. The pendant can be worn in a necklace or a bracelet.