Listening Bars / Turkey
Listening Bars & Vinyl Cafes in Turkey
8 rooms across 4 cities — combo shops where buying and listening share a space.
Ankara
- Vintage&Plak Teras Cafe
Terrace cafe inside the Ulus antiques quarter that also buys and sells records and turntables, with tea/coffee service and vinyl playing in the background.
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Bursa
- Platon Plakevi & Sahaf
Osmangazi record-and-secondhand-book shop ('Plakevi & Sahaf', run by İbrahim abi) in the Sönmez İş Sarayı arcade, stocking records, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, turntables, cassette players and Walkmans alongside posters, stickers, stamps and used books.
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Istanbul
- Boris Comics & Records
Small, intimate Kadıköy shop pairing a record selection with comic books; friendly owner, discogs-level pricing.
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- Gereksiz Şeyler Plak & Cafe
Warm, 90s-themed Kadıköy/Moda record cafe where customers dig through new and used vinyl across pop, rock, international and Turkish artists while sipping Turkish coffee or tea.
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- Mephisto Kitabevi & Kafe - Beyoğlu
Four-floor İstiklal Caddesi bookstore-cafe (women-owned) with stationery, puzzles and books on every level, plus a genuine vinyl-records section that a steady stream of reviewers call out alongside the coffee.
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- Off The Record
Kuzguncuk record-shop cafe on the Asian side selling new and used vinyl, cassettes and CDs alongside coffee and an affogato-friendly menu; a balcony overlooks one of Istanbul's quietest neighborhoods.
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- Vintage Records
Founded 2006, an Istanbul vinyl institution that relocated from Moda to Acıbadem; a vintage shop mixing 80s/90s clothing and accessories at the entrance with cassettes, CDs, DVDs and secondhand LPs, especially Turkish pop/rock and English classic rock.
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Izmir
- Ege Kitap ve Plak
Alsancak used bookstore and record shop with a strong vinyl selection (blues, jazz, punk, rock, reggae, psychedelic) plus tea/coffee service.
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