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From the Grand Bazaar to the neighborhood bazaar, Istanbul is a city of bazaars. Istanbul’s organic farmers’ markets, where villagers skip the middlemen and sell their certified organic produce directly from their fields at prices that are a fraction of those in supermarket chains.

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From the Grand Bazaar to the neighborhood bazaar, Istanbul is a city of bazaars. What’s surprising to many newcomers, however, is that bazaars in Turkey are not just places selling water pipes, carpets and colorful glass lights in winding back streets. Bazaars are, more often than not, places where Turks go to buy their produce and daily wares. And in recent years, bazaars have grown to include a number of “ecological” bazaars that sell exclusively organic products.

If you are the kind of person who prefers to buy your produce fresh from farmers’ markets, then you’ll be in heaven in Istanbul with their hundreds of neighborhood bazaars. And if you’re an organic buff who hates buying overpriced plastic-wrapped organic produce from supermarket chains, then you’ll be head over heels with Istanbul’s seven organic farmers’ markets, where villagers skip the middlemen and sell their certified organic produce directly from their fields at prices that are a fraction of those in supermarket chains.

Turkey’s first official organic market opened for business in 2006 and since then, the Feriköy Ecological Bazaar has grown to become an institution for those subscribing to the organic lifestyle movement. Founded by the Buğday Association for Ecological Living, which began as a small natural foods stall in a market in the Aegean coastal town of Bodrum, the organization has spawned a mushrooming industry around the country.

Since then, organic bazaars have multiplied throughout Turkey, and Buğday has grown to become a pioneer for the ecological products sector. They have founded not only Turkey’s first certified organic bazaar, but have also spearheaded an “organic farming tourism” sector, an “organic” certification body and an organic auditing company that inspects bazaar stalls around the country which purport to sell organic products.

While all organic bazaars have a particular charm distinct from regular bazaars (which themselves are much more charming than shopping at the local supermarket), the Feriköy Bazaar – the first established “organic bazaar” in Turkey – has a particularly special charm.

Located in a parking lot across from what used to be an old beer brewery and which is now a concert venue in the Feriköy neighborhood of Şişli, the bazaar attracts a particularly eclectic crowd from one of Istanbul’s most diverse neighborhoods.

What the bazaar lacks in aesthetic beauty (it’s in a parking lot) is more than made up for by the wonderfully colorful people at the market and the sense of community that blossoms there. Ecological bazaar goers in Turkey are much more closely knit than venders and customers at regular bazaars. And because Buğday encourages producers directly from villages to set up their own stalls, a true sense of community permeates the air as village kids kick footballs around with neighborhood kids and chase each other on tricycles while their parents chat about new recipes for preparing artichoke or aubergine.

The Feriköy Bazaar also attracts the “society” of Istanbul: Celebrities and hipsters from Bebek and Cihangir wander around the bazaar’s 60-plus stalls while high-end customers from Ulus, Levent, and Etiler buy beauty products made from organic olive oil and avocado extracts. What could perhaps be perceived as pretentiousness is permeated by the giggles and screams of children kicking cardboard boxes around the cement floors.

Venders at the bazaar sell an array of products from olive oils to soaps and from baked goods to clothing, all made with natural ingredients. Regulars to the bazaar report that they often have venders prepare baked goods especially to their liking such as organic apple pie with reduced sugar.

Buğday also has its own stall at the Feriköy Bazaar where it provides information on its activities as well as the state of the organic sector in Turkey. The organization also operates stalls and provides information on other institutions that it is involved with. These include the TaTuTa Foundation, a non-profit established by Buğday to help facilitate Eco-Agro tourism and volunteer work on organic farms around the country, the 100% Ekolojik Pazarları (100% Ecological Bazaars), which operates a number of bazaars around the country and promotes organic agriculture, Ecological Living (Çamtepe Rural Center for Ecological Education and Research), Agro-Biodiversity (Seed Exchange Network), and Urban Agriculture.

Turkey is one of the world’s leading agricultural producers and the diversity in Turkey’s produce is immense. That can mean knowing what to do with “exotic” produce such as the obscure turp otu (wild turnip) or kantaron (Saint John’s Wort) is not necessarily self-evident. Nor is it necessarily obvious how to maximize the health benefits of semizotu (purslane), which Dr. Oz claims to be one of the best age reversers on the planet. Luckily for you, the villagers are happy to include their grandmother’s secret recipes when selling their produce.

Buğday

Buğday Association for Supporting Ecological Living is a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered under the Turkish law. The pioneering Buğday (Wheat) ecological movement started in the 1990s with a restaurant/wholesale store offering local and organic food, which also served as a space for like-minded, environmentally conscious people to meet, gather and share their ideas and visions about ecological living. Buğday movement evolved into an association which was officially founded in 2002, under the name of Buğday Association for Supporting Ecological Living.

Today, Buğday Association has more than 3500 members and 4000 volunteers throughout Turkey.

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It reaches up to 20.000 people through its monthly electronic bulletin.

Since those early days up to the present, the pioneering Buğday ecological movement has been tirelessly working to support, create and promote fair and sustainable production-consumption patterns in Turkey and beyond.

Buğday’s mission is to create ecological living conscience and sensitivity in the society both on the individual basis and as a whole; to offer solutions to the problems arising due to the irreversible destruction of the ecological systems and to support living in harmony with nature.

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The steps which have been taken for the last 20 years in order to realize this mission are:

• Conservation and sustenance of traditional production processes.
• Redefinition of human needs in along with the ecosystem circles.
• The expansion of sustainable agricultural methods which neither harm environment nor human health.
• Creation of field of activities to inform individuals and increase their capacity so as to make them live in harmony with nature.

The main working areas of Buğday can be summarized as: Organic Agriculture ( e. g. %100 Ecological Market Places); Ecological Living ( e. g. Camtepe Ecological Center); Agro-Biodiversity ( e. g. Seed Network); Eco-Agro Tourism ( e.g. TaTuTa -Eco-Agro Tourism and Voluntary Exchange); Urban Agriculture ( e.g. Cumhuriyetköy Community Garden).

Buğday has its headquarters in Istanbul, at a very vibrant district of Kadikoy, and an ecological rural center on the Ida Mountains, which serves as a research and education center to spread the knowledge and experience of ecological living. This newly opened “Camtepe Rural Center for Ecological Education and Research” runs regularly an educational programme, “School of Life” tackling the different aspects of ecological living

Seed

The seeds of Buğday were first twinkled on a small market stand selling whole rice, olive oil, sage, thyme and sea salt at the Bodrum bazaar in 1990. In the following years, it was transformed to Basak Naturcafe which by its herbal teas and natural desserts on one hand became the haunt of people who sought healthy nutrition and on the other hand the meeting point of the nature conservationalists.

The Buğday restaurant which was opened in a renovated Greek house in a small garden in 1992 prepared its local and seasonal, unrefined food with olive oil and sea salt and served them, without compromising from its principles, in pots with wooden spoons.

Buğday restaurant had been the place for meetings, seminars, courses, dia-shows and exhibitions for the subjects related to self-improvement, nature and ecological life and the small library of local and foreign publications in these fields.

Buğday continued selling ecologically certified products in the foundation of its second year. Buğday, giving direct support to the suppliers and producers of the products like bread, grain, pottery and ecological vegetables, both contributed to the expansion of ecological circulations and encouraged lots of people for such production.

The Buğday restaurant had been the haunt and the meeting point of the people who came from all over the world and were interested in natural living and healthy nutrition. As the number of people seeking information about these issues had increased in time, the need for publishing a bulletin arose.

The Buğday fanzin, previously duplicated by photocopy, transformed to Buğday Bulletin in 1998 and to the Buğday Magazine the following year. It soon became the communication point and the source about any field of ecological living varying from organic agriculture and products to healthy nutrition, self-improvement to natural healing methods and consumption behaviors to ecological architecture.

For living in harmony with other beings and the ecological whole

The Buğday movement decided to institutionalize its operations under the name of Buğday Association for Supporting Ecological Living in 2002.

Victor Ananias

1971-2011

Victor Ananias, the founder and the Chairman of Board of Bugday Association of Turkey was found dead in his bed on March 2. Ananias, 40-years-old at the time, passed away in his sleep. The cause of death is yet to be declared after the autopsy report, due in two months. He had done so much and had so much more to do – his unexpected death is a great loss for Bugday, for Turkey and the world.

Victor was a pioneer of the organic movement in Turkey, actually we can’t speak of an organic movement before Victor. In 2006, he initiated the founding of the 100% Ecological Farmers Markets, which allowed small organic farmers to sell their produce directly to the consumers. Another one of the signature projects of Bugday was TaTuTa, a network of organic farms located all over Turkey which accepts visitors and volunteers from all around the world. For more information on Bugday and its projects, please see the relevant pages of this website.

Victor Ananias was also very much involved with international network. He was the Secretiat General of ECEAT, an active member of IFOAM “Good Governance Task Force” and was a member of board of EEB ( European Environmental Bureau) among many other networks.

Victor was a great friend to many and a wise man who never compromised from what he believed in. This is a better world for he was in it for 40 years. He has touched many people and has accomplished amazing things, leaving us with a lot of work to make this world a better place. Victor gave us the inspiration, the motivation and he showed us that if you put your heart in it, anything is possible.For that, we are forever thankful.

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Organic is a controlled and certified agriculture and production method without using chemical inputs. The purpose of ecological agriculture is to protect the environment, plant, animal and human health without polluting the soil, water resources and air. Organic is scientific and legal concept. Marketing of a product with expressions such as "natural, additive-free, hormone-free, pure, village product, from the farm, homemade, healthy" does not mean that it is organic. The organic food products in Ekoorganik Organic Store are in line with the European Union Organic Agriculture Legislation, and produced in accordance with the Organic Agriculture Law and Regulation of Turkish Republic and has been certified by the Organic Certification Bodies authorized by the Ministry of Agriculture, after being inspected by laboratory analyzes.

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