Handmade Copper Pots in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar

It actually starts with copper sheets that are 2.5mm or 3mm thick or sometimes 1.5mm for the coffee pots. We take them to the spinning machine or we start hammering them by hand. I typed the search terms in English and I realized to my great horror that the market was dominated by the French, the Italians and the Belgians who do not have a history of coffee smithing. Turkey, Iran, India and Syria have it. I was furious and I looked at the Turkish market and there is no brand. Then I thought, why doesn't anyone in Turkey, where we have so much know-how and skill, do those copper pots? The pots are also all handmade in Istanbul, Turkey, where we have the best copper smithing and silver smithing tradition in the world, by far. Then, when the sides are complete, we put the last set of hammer on them to hide the scars and to harden them even more. After this is done also, we polish the inside and we plate it in silver or in tin. Meanwhile, while we do this, we file the handles, which come from casting very dirty and plenty of defects. After we mount the handles on, we engrave the serial number and the pot is ready. Soy in Turkish means a lot of things, actually. It means the roots, the essence, the pedigree, the origin. This craft is in our pedigree and origin, not the Western Europeans'.