ISTANBUL A total of 2.7 million visitors came to Türkiye for shopping purposes in the first nine months of 2024, down from 2.78 million shoppers in the same period of last year. They spent $4.8 billion on clothing and shoes, up from $4.5 billion in January-September of 2023, showed data the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) unveiled earlier this week. Tourists also spent another $1.7 billion on souvenirs in the first nine months of 2024. During the same period, 81,000 Turkish citizens