Cemil Meriç is a neighborhood in the district of

Ümraniye Ümraniye () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 46 km2, and its population is 723,760 (2023). It was separated from Üsküdar in 1987. It is bordered by Çekmeköy t ...

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. Its population is 22,094 (2019). Cemil Meriç is bordered on the north by State Road D016, with the Ümraniye neighborhood of Fatih Sultan Mehmet and the

Çekmeköy Çekmeköy is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 152 km2, and its population is 296,066 (2022). It is on the Asian side of Istanbul. In 2008 the district Çekmeköy was created from part of the district Ü ...

Merkez neighborhood on the other side of the road; on the east by the Ümraniye neighborhoods of Parseller and Adem Yavuz; on the south by the Ümraniye neighborhoods of Yukarı Dudullu, Altınşehir, and

Tepeüstü Tepeüstü is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of Ümraniye, Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 13,700 (2022). Its land area is 42 hectares. The name of the neighborhood means literally "hill top" (Tur ...

; and on the west by the Ümraniye neighborhood of

Ihlamurkuyu Ihlamurkuyu is a neighborhood (''wikt:mahalle, mahalle'') in the district of Ümraniye, Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. It is on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. Its population is 16,308 (2019). Its land area is 137 hectares. It is ...

. The neighborhood is the namesake of Turkish writer

Cemil Meriç Hüseyin Cemil Meriç (December 12, 1916 – June 13, 1987) was a Turkish writer and translator who wrote various articles in social sciences and contributed to Turkish literature with his twelve books in the twentieth century. Early life He ...

. The neighborhood is home to the Ümraniye Ihlamurkuyu Cemevi, one of the larger and older

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s of Istanbul, run by the Anadolu Bilim Kültür ve Cem Vakfı (Anatolia Knowledge, Culture, and

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Foundation), established in the 1990s, with the current building finished in 2004. The neighborhood is also home to the Ihlamurkuyu Cemetery.

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{{Reflist Neighbourhoods in Ümraniye District