REFLECTION TASK 2 - A - AYRANCI ANTİKA PAZARI - ANKARA AYRANCI ANTIQUE BAZAAR

       There are several activities among the antique dealers in all around the world. Auctions and antique bazaars are two examples of these facilities that collectionist people often participate to sell and buy many items in these two joyful environments.

      First Sunday of every month there is a big antique bazaar taking place in Ayrancı district of Ankara that thousands of antique fans coming together in this gathering from previous night till next evening in order to exhibit their goods and make profit of these valuable items that are coming from all over the world. I am fond of visiting this spectacular event every month and bought many items for my collections from there. It is the most important event for myself in each month that I have to go and visit this amazing atmosphere since I can buy many of my missing things for my collections there for a reasonable price.

      I like the soul of this particular event very much and I like to see thousands of things from all over the world and have desire to buy as much as possible in accordance with my budget every month. I like the people who are selling interesting items here and each person has his/her own customers due to their different collections. Comparing to the similar activities in other European countries, Ankara Antique bazaar is much more friendly and the people are here helping to each other and trying to provide new things for the collectionists since they know each other for long years and they follow each other's collections what is missing or which item would be suitable for whom.

       Main problems and challenges that occur here are due to bureaucracy and the common regulations of Ministry and Municipality that the organizator of this event, The Anatolian Association of Antique Dealers and the members of them suffer mainly from above mentioned regulations and bureaucratic problems that prevent them from doing better activities for the sake of antique lovers.

      What should be done is mainly the Ministrial issue that the Law should be changed for these people to increase their productivity and help them to protect and save much more antique items before going abroad from illegal ways.