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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.

Key facts

Turkey place.type
metro district
Turkey place.name
Çekmeköy
Turkey place.image_skyline
Reşadiye, Çekmeköy-İstanbul, Turkey - panoramio (1).jpg
Turkey place.image_caption
Reşadiye Neighborhood
Turkey place.image_map
Istanbul location Çekmeköy.svg
Turkey place.map_caption
Map showing Çekmeköy District in Istanbul Province
Turkey place.province
Istanbul
Turkey place.leader_party
CHP
Turkey place.leader_name
Orhan Çerkez
Turkey place.area_total_km2
152
Turkey place.population_total
296066
Turkey place.population_as_of
2022
Turkey place.area_code
0216

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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 Ümraniye, including the former municipalities Çekmeköy, Taşdelen, Alemdağ and Ömerli. The urban part of the new district, 17 neighbourhoods, was established as a municipality. At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods. Its first mayor, Ahmet Poyraz, was elected in the 2009 Turkish local elections from (AKP).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Çekmeköy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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