Taşköprü is a

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

() in the

Düzce District Düzce District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of the Düzce Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Düzce.Düzce Province Düzce Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province in northwestern Turkey. The province is on the coastline of the Black Sea and is traversed by the main highway between Istanbul and Ankara. The primary town is Düzce, located in the center of t ...

in Turkey. Its population is 740 (2022). The village has a significant Circassian population, and was officially called Çerkez Taşköprü until 2023 when it was demoted from

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

() status, during which the

ethnonym An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used ...

''Çerkez'' was removed. This caused controversy among the Circassian community who are currently campaigning to reverse these changes.

References

Villages in Düzce District {{Düzce-geo-stub Circassian communities