Mecidiyeköy ( is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of
ÅžiÅŸli
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,
Istanbul Province
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,
Turkey
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. Its population is 20,006 (2022). It is a heavily built-up residential and business neighbourhood, squeezed in between the Fulya, KuÅŸtepe,
Gültepe, Esentepe, and Gülbahar neighbourhoods.
Mecidiyeköy means "Mecid's Village" in Turkish, a name it acquired because it was during the reign of the
Ottoman sultan
Abdülmecid I that it started to be settled.
Attractions
Mecidiyeöy barely features on the sightseeing radar although there are a couple of things to attract the curious, most obviously the
Abide-i Hürriyet (Liberty Monument) isolated amid the traffic chaos where Halaskargazi Street meets the D100 flyover. The monument commemorates the so-called
31 March incident when counter-revolutionaries attempted to overturn the new
Young Turk government and return
Sultan Abdülhamid II to the throne. Their effort failed and shortly afterwards the sultan was removed from office. Work on the monument was completed in 1911 and it went on to become a site for memorials to some Young Turks leaders,
Enver PaÅŸa and
Talat PaÅŸa. There is also a monument to
Mithad PaÅŸa, a reformist grand vizier who died in exile in what is now Saudi Arabia. The assassinated grand vizier
Mahmud Sevked PaÅŸa was actually buried here.
Just to the south of the D100 flyway are three large cemeteries, one belonging to the Rum (Greek) Orthodox community, one to the Italian Jewish community and the third to the Armenian community. The Jewish cemetery is rarely open to outsiders. Buried in the Rum (Greek) Cemetery are the founders of the tiny and controversial
Turkish Orthodox Church, Papas Eftim I, II and III.
Transportation
Mecidiyeköy is an important passenger transport hub on the European part of Istanbul. It is served by many important lines such as the
Metrobus bus rapid transit line at
Mecidiyeköy station, the
M2 and
M7Â
rapid transit
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 lines at
Şişli—Mecidiyeköy station, and various
İETT bus lines.
The busy Halaskargazi street runs through Şişli to Mecidiyeköy where it intersects with the
D100 motorway. The motorway
Otoyol 1
Otoyol 1 (), abbreviated as O-1 and locally referred to as The First Beltway (), is a controlled access highway in Istanbul, Turkey. The O-1 serves as the inner beltway and is one of three intercontinental motorways in the city, the others being t ...
that forms the inner half
ring road
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of Istanbul connecting European and Asian parts via the
Bosphorus Bridge, runs through Mecidiyeköy on a viaduct.
See also
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Ali Sami Yen Stadium, demolished
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Istanbul Cevahir
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Profilo Shopping Center
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Trump Towers Istanbul
References
External links
Miscellaneous images of MecidiyeköyMecidiyeköy Metrosu
Neighbourhoods of ÅžiÅŸli
Transit centers in Istanbul
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