İSTANBUL DIRECTORATE OF CULTURE AND TOURISM

Eyüpsultan – Eyüp Toys

During the Ottoman Empire period, Eyüp neighbourhood became a toy manufacturing center and the toys manufactured here were named as “Eyüp Toys”. On your visit to Eyüp you can witness history and buy one of the many toys such as nightingale whistle, çınçın cars, pin wheels, timbal (dümbelek), wooden chairs, wooden cradles, wooden trucks-buses, trumpets, tambourines.