Gaziosmanpaşa
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District and municipality | |
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| Coordinates: 41°2′57″N 28°54′05″E / 41.04917°N 28.90139°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Istanbul |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Hakan Bahçetepe (CHP) |
Area | 12 km2 (4.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 495,998 |
| • Density | 41,000/km2 (110,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Postal code | 34275 |
| Area code | 0212 |
| Website | www |
Gaziosmanpaşa (Turkish: [ɡaːziosˈmanpaʃa]; old name: Taşlıtarla) is a municipality (belediye) and district of Istanbul, Turkey, on its European side.[2][3] Its area is 12 km2,[4] and its population is 495,998 (2022).[1] Esenler and Bayrampaşa are west, Sultangazi is north and Eyüp is south and east of the district.[2]
History
The district is named after Gazi Osman Pasha (1832–1900), the Ottoman general known as the Hero of Plevna; the name was chosen at the request of the inhabitants when the district was formed in 1963.[2] Until the 1950s the land, then part of Eyüp district, was almost empty.[a] Its barren, stony ground gave it the popular name Taşlıtarla ("stony field"), and before 1950 it held little more than sheepfolds and a few small workshops.[3]
Settlement began in the early 1950s, when the government of Adnan Menderes granted state land and built houses for Balkan immigrants from Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece and Romania.[3][2][5] As industry expanded in nearby Rami and Eyüp, migrants from Anatolia settled on nearby state-owned land, mostly in illegally built gecekondu dwellings, and Taşlıtarla grew into the second-largest gecekondu quarter of Istanbul after Zeytinburnu.[6][5] A 1962 survey estimated that about 90,000 people lived there in some 18,000 gecekondus.[3][5] In 1963 the area was separated from Eyüp and joined with parts of Çatalca to form the new district.[3][6]
With continued migration the population rose rapidly, passing one million by 2007, when Gaziosmanpaşa was the most populous district in Turkey.[3][5] In 2008, under Law No. 5747, the district was divided in three: the new districts of Sultangazi and Arnavutköy separated in 2009, leaving Gaziosmanpaşa with about 460,000 inhabitants.[3][2][5]
Composition
There are 16 neighbourhoods in Gaziosmanpaşa District:[2]
- Bağlarbaşı
- Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa
- Fevzi Çakmak
- Hürriyet
- Karadeniz
- Karayolları
- Karlıtepe
- Kazım Karabekir
- Merkez
- Mevlana
- Pazariçi
- Sarıgöl
- Şemsipaşa
- Yeni Mahalle
- Yenidoğan
- Yıldıztabya
Gaziosmanpaşa today
The urban fabric of the district is dominated by redeveloped former gecekondu housing.[5] An improvement plan of 1992 gave many gecekondu owners full or provisional title deeds and extended the power and water networks.[5] In 2006 the district was designated a second-tier urban centre in the Istanbul master plan, and private commercial investment has been accompanied by public investment in physical and social infrastructure.[5]
From 2005 the municipality prepared redevelopment plans for selected neighbourhoods, and thirteen urban regeneration areas, nearly a third of all such designations in Greater Istanbul, were declared in the district under the Urban Regeneration Law of 2012.[5] In renewal areas such as Sarıgöl, the population includes immigrant families from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, migrants from the Black Sea region, and Roma, some of them displaced from Sulukule; unemployment remains a serious problem in these areas.[5] Redevelopment projects such as Sarıgöl–Yenidoğan have faced opposition and court challenges from residents and professional bodies over displacement and inadequate provision of transport and community facilities.[5] Urban renewal has been expected to raise house prices in the district.[7]
International relations
Sister cities:
Notes
References
- 1 2 "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Gaziosmanpaşa İlçe Tarihçesi" [History of Gaziosmanpaşa district] (in Turkish). Gaziosmanpaşa District Directorate of National Education. 16 October 2024. Archived from the original on 24 April 2025. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "İlçe Tarihi" [District history] (in Turkish). Gaziosmanpaşa Municipality. Archived from the original on 8 March 2026. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
- ↑ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Gökşin, Zeynep Ayşe; Erkan Yazıcı, Yasemin; Töre, Evrim (2016). "The Origins, Processes and Emerging Outcomes of Neighbourhood Redevelopment in Gaziosmanpaşa, Istanbul" (PDF). Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies. 2 (1): 45–70. doi:10.30958/ajms.2-1-3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 April 2025.
- 1 2 Gökburun, İbrahim (2017). "İstanbul'da nüfusun gelişimi ve ilçelere dağılımı (1950–2015)" [Population development and distribution by districts in Istanbul (1950–2015)]. Anadolu Kültürel Araştırmalar Dergisi (in Turkish). 1 (3): 110–130.
- ↑ "Istanbul's most expensive place to rent property: The Grand Bazaar". Daily Sabah. 16 August 2015. Archived from the original on 30 October 2025. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
- ↑ "Kardeş Belediyeler" [Gaziosmanpaşa Twin Towns]. Gaziosmanpaşa Municipality (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
External links
- District governor's official website (in Turkish)
- District municipality's official website (in Turkish)
