Shadowing the newsreader
Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.
Before the sun rises, groups of men come to Istanbul's market, the Grand Bazaar.
They work as porters.
This job has existed for hundreds of years.
The men transport heavy loads of clothes and materials.
These loads weigh up to 200 kilogrammes.
The porters carry products to businesses down the bazaar's narrow streets.
Kamil Beldek, shop owner, employs porters.
Now, many owners have moved outside to areas with more space.
People are worried Istanbul's porter tradition may disappear.
Mehmet Toktas is a porter, just as his uncle was.
He thinks the job is too hard for young people today.
But historian Necdet Sakaoglu has studied their role through history.
He believes people have always had the same worries about the profession.
Among themselves, porters have strict rules about which shops they work for.
Sakaoglu is certain this historical tradition will stay, because the city has no other choice.
