Güngören

Güngören
Basic data
Province (il) :	Istanbul
Coordinates :	41 ° 2 '  N , 28 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 2 '6 "  N , 28 ° 51' 27"  E
Telephone code :	(+90) 212 (European part) (+90) 216 (Asian part)
Postal code :	34 xxx
License plate :	34
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Mayor :	Bünyamin Demir ( AKP )
Website:	www.gungoren.bel.tr
District of Güngören
Residents :	303,371 (2014)
Surface:	7.17 km²
Population density :	42,311 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Seyfettin Azizoğlu
Website (Kaymakam):	www.gungoren.gov.tr

Güngören (until 1936 Vidos in Greek ) is the capital of the district of the same name in the Turkish province of İstanbul and a district on the European side of İstanbul . Güngören has 303,371 inhabitants (as of 2014).

history

Güngören used to be a village called Vidos, inhabited by Greeks . In the 17th century, the area around what is now Güngören was a popular hunting destination for Sultan Osman II . Sultan Osman had a mosque named after him and a hunting villa with a Turkish bath built there. He had two fountains built on the right and left sides of the mosque. The right one has been preserved to this day.

After Sultan Osman was murdered by members of the Ottoman elite unit of the Janissaries , his successor Murat IV had all Janissaries housed in buildings around the mosque and the hunting villa killed. When the Greek place names were changed to Turkish in 1936, the place Vidos got the name Güngören. In the 1955 census, 237 residents were registered in the village of Güngören. After this time, Güngören grew explosively until it reached a population of 272,950 in 2000.

Güngören gained the status of a district of Istanbul in 1992 . Before that it belonged to the Bakırköy district . The Merter district, which is mainly located in Güngören today , was named after Ahmet Muhtar Merter , a landowner, former resistance fighter and leader against the Greek occupation in the Greco-Turkish War .

The headquarters of the Kiler Holding Group is in Güngören.

On July 27, 2008, terrorists carried out an attack in a pedestrian zone in Güngören, in which 18 people were killed and more than 100 injured.

Web links

Commons : Güngören  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics, 2014 ( Memento from February 10, 2015 on WebCite ) accessed May 2, 2015