The Kuyumcular Çarşısı is the jewellers' market of Kahramanmaraş, where jewellery making is a traditional craft grown into an important trade.
In the workshops of the jewellers' market, master jewellers work with both traditional and modern tools to make pieces of high craft: the twisted chain known as Maraş burması, woven mesh, honeycomb work, caged cord, wedding bands, necklaces, bracelets and belts of various kinds, sold within the country and abroad.
The market is in the Kurtuluş quarter of Dulkadiroğlu and is easily reached from anywhere in the city by minibus, public bus or taxi.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kahramanmaraş as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 4.9 °C in January to 28.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (131 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
