19 Mayıs is a neighborhood in the district of

Kadıköy Kadıköy () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district on the Asian side of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 25 km2, and its population is 467,919 (2023). It is a large and populous area in the Asian si ...

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Description

19 Mayıs is one of the fastest-developing neighborhoods in the district, active in the global economy and full of large apartment blocks. Its population is 32,164 (2020). It is bordered by the

Sahrayıcedit Sahrayicedit is a neighborhood in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is bordered to the northeast by the State road D.100 (Turkey), D.100 highway and the adjacent Ataşehir district, to the south by the :tr:19 Mayıs, Kadıköy, 19 May ...

neighborhood on the north and northwest, by the D.100 highway and the

Ataşehir Ataşehir is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. Its area is 25 km2, and its population is 423,127 (2022). It is located at the junction of the Otoyol 2, O-2 and Otoyol 4, O-4 motorways on the Anato ...

district on the northeast, by the Kozyatağı neighborhood on the southeast, and by the Suadiye and Erenkoy neighborhoods on the southwest. Religious institutions include the Haserenler Mosque, the Mustafa Nazmi Ersin Mosque, and the Kazasker Mosque. Schools include Çevre College and the Erenköy Campus of the FMV Işık Schools. Hospitals include the Erenköy Mental and Nervous Diseases Training and Research Hospital, the Erenköy Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital, and the Acıbadem Kozyatağı Hospital. The neighborhood's largest park is the

Kriton Curi Kriton Curi (1942 – 21 October 1996) was an environmentalist and professor of civil engineering in Turkey. Early life and education Curi was born in Kadıköy, Istanbul, in 1942. He graduated from the Zografeion Lyceum, Zoğrafyon Greek High ...

Park. The neighborhood is named for May 19 (

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: ''Ondokuz Mayıs''), the day generally considered the beginning of the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

and now celebrated as

Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day The Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (), is an annual Turkish national holiday celebrated on May 19 to commemorate Mustafa Kemal's landing at Samsun on May 19, 1919, which is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Indep ...

Historic sites

Several historic mansions (''

köşk Köşk is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Aydın Province, Turkey. Its area is 187 km2, and its population is 28,235 (2022). "Köşk" is a noun in Turkish and refers to an ornate wooden mansion, smaller than a palace. Comp ...

'') remain standing in neighborhood, including the Reşat Paşa Mansion, the Kabasakal Mehmet Paşa or Gezeryan Mansion, and the Mühürdar Fuat Paşa Mansion. The grounds of the Erenköy Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital include the Ziya Paşa Mansion. The grounds of the Erenköy Mental and Nervous Diseases Training and Research Hospital included three wooden mansions when it opened in 1932. Of these, the Central Pavilion (''pavyon'') was demolished in 1968 to make way for the Akbaytugan Service building, while the Women's Pavilion is still standing, but in a dilapidated state. The grounds of the Erenköy FMV Işık Schools include the Ragıp and Nezahet Nurettin Eğe mansion. The Zihni Paşa Mansion, also known as the Ziverbey Mansion, was used by the Turkish

National Intelligence Organization loction 39°54'25.0"N 32°39'59.3"E The National Intelligence Organization (), also known by its Turkish language, Turkish initials MIT or MİT, or colloquially as the Organization (), is an intelligence agency of the Turkish government tasked ...

( MİT) and by

Counter-Guerrilla Counter-Guerrilla () is a Turkish branch of Operation Gladio, a clandestine stay-behind Anti-communism, anti-communist initiative backed by the United States as an expression of the Truman Doctrine. The founding goal of the operation was to erect ...

( Kontrgerilla) for interrogations after the 1971 military intervention. The mansion was later demolished. Nearby is the ''Memorial of Respect for Victims of Torture'' (''İşkence Mağdurlarına Saygı Anıtı''), a 2013 sculpture by Rahmi Aksungur.

References

{{Kadıköy District Neighbourhoods of Kadıköy