Karşıyaka (Izmir)

Karşıyaka
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Izmir
Coordinates :	38 ° 28 '  N , 27 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 38 ° 28 '13 "  N , 27 ° 6' 41"  E
Height :	16  m
Residents :	325,717 (2014)
Telephone code :	(+90)
Postal code :	35510
License plate :	35
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Mayor :	Hüseyin Mutlu Akpınar ( CHP )
Website:	www.karsiyaka.bel.tr
Karşıyaka County
Residents :	325,717 (2014)
Surface:	66 km²
Population density :	4,935 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Sadettin Yücel
Website (Kaymakam):	www.karsiyaka.gov.tr

Karşıyaka Çarşı Sokağı

Karşıyaka (in German opposite bank or opposite bank ) is a district in the Turkish province of Izmir and at the same time a district of the Büyükşehir Belediyesi (city municipality) Izmir . After a regional reform, the city is identical in terms of population and area to the district.

Karşıyaka is located northwest of the city center of Izmir on the north bank of the Gulf of Smyrna (İzmir Korfezi) . The district borders on Bayraklı and Bornova in the east, Menemen in the north and Çiğli in the west . In the south lies the coast of the Gulf.

Karşıyaka used to be called Kordelya. This is supposed to be derived from Coeur de Lion and refer to Richard the Lionheart , who set up camp here. The renaming took place after the expulsion of the Greeks. In 1954 the place became a district and in 1984 it received the status of a Belediye . Karşıyaka was already a Belediye in the Ottoman Empire . The first mayor was Çömezzade Hacı Mehmet Efendi in the 1880s.

In the urban center of Karşıyaka is one of the houses that belonged to Latife Uşşaki's family , Ataturk's wife , and where his mother Zübeyde Hanım died. It was restored in 2008.

Karşıyaka has the sports club Karşıyaka SK , whose football department represented the district for a total of 16 seasons in the first Turkish football league, the Süper Lig . Since the last first division relegation in summer 1996, with the exception of a two-year third division period from 2001 to 2003, the club has played consistently in the second highest Turkish division, the TFF 1. Lig . The basketball department plays in the highest Turkish league, in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi . While the football department is the third most successful team in the city after the big competitors Altay Izmir and Göztepe Izmir , the basketball department is the most successful team in the entire city.

Web links

Commons : Karşıyaka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from January 19, 2016 on WebCite ), accessed January 19, 2016