Sarıyer

Sarıyer
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Istanbul
Coordinates :	41 ° 11 '  N , 29 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 11 '28 "  N , 29 ° 0' 34"  E
Surface:	151.26 km²
Residents :	258,035 (2012)
Population density :	1,706 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+90) 212 (European part) (+90) 216 (Asian part)
Postal code :	34 xxx
License plate :	34
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Mayor :	Şükrü Genç ( CHP )
Website:	www.sariyer.bel.tr
Sarıyer County
Residents :	337,681 (2014)
Surface:	162 km²
Population density :	2,084 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Mehmet Ersoy
Website (Kaymakam):	www.sariyer.gov.tr

Sarıyer is a district in the Turkish province of Istanbul and a district on the European side of Istanbul on the Bosporus and the Black Sea . The district of Sarıyer has 337,681 inhabitants (as of 2014).

Sarıyer signed a cooperation agreement with the central Hessian city of Weilburg in summer 2009 and has been twinning with Aachen since January 2013 .

In Sarıyer is the historic district Therapia (formerly Phamakias ) where many Bosporus - German lived from the first generation. Here in 1909 the Armenian Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan opened the second of his famous Tokatlıyan hotels , which are considered the favorite hotel of the Turkish state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk .

Attractions

• the Rumeli fortress
• the building of Borsa Istanbul, founded in 1985, in Istinye
• the Belgrade Forest, the easternmost choice of the Thrace Peninsula

Web links

Commons : Sarıyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics, 2012 ( Memento from February 20, 2013 on WebCite ), accessed May 9, 2015
2. ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics, 2014 ( Memento of February 10, 2015 on WebCite ), accessed May 9, 2015