Kadikoy

Kadikoy is a residential and commercial district, and with its numerous bars, cinemas and bookshops, is the cultural centre of the Anatolian side. It became a district in 1928 when it seceded from Uskudar. Also, the quarters of Icerenkoy, Bostancı and Suadiye were separated from the district of Kartal in the same year, and eventually joined the borough of Kadikoy. Its neighbours are Uskudar to the northwest Umraniye to the northeast, Maltepe to the southeast and Kartal beyond Maltepe. The population of Kadikoy, according to the 2007 census, is 509.282.

Kadıköy is a busy shopping district, with a wide variety of atmospheres and architectural styles. The streets are varied, some being narrow alleyways and others, such as Bahariye Caddesi, being pedestrianised avenues. Turkey's biggest freshmarket is there, starting next to the Osman AÄŸa Mosque, and has an immense turnover of fresh products and artifacts from all around Turkey, ranging from dozens of species of fresh fish and seafood that has just been caught to plenty of different kinds of natural olive oil soap that come to be sold here, in a very organized and clean manner, thus making it a very important center of attraction for the one who eats organic and lives healthy. There are also modern shopping centres, most notably the large Carrefour Nautilus Shopping Mall behind the centrum of Kadıköy, and pavements crowded with street vendors selling socks, pirated copies of popular novels, and other products. In the streets behind the main post office, there is a large number of well-known bookshops selling both new and second-hand books, craft-shops and picture-framers, and a number of shops selling music CDs and related ephemera such as film posters and t-shirts. Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music is sold in the arcade named Akmar Pasajı, where associated items are also sold. On Sundays this area becomes a large second-hand book and music street market. Being a crowded shopping district, Kadıköy has many buskers, shoe shine boys, glue sniffers and schoolchildren in the streets selling flowers, chewing gum and packets of tissues.

At the top of the shopping district there is an intersection, with a statue of a bull, called Altıyol (Six Ways), where a road leads to the civic buildings and a huge street market called Salı Pazarı (Tuesday Market). The working-class residential districts of Hasanpaşa and Fikirtepe are located behind the civic buildings.

 

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