11 Facts About Zeytinburnu

Zeytinburnu is a working-class neighbourhood, municipality and district on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey, on the shore of the Marmara Sea just outside the walls of the ancient city, beyond the fortress of Yedikule.

Zeytinburnu was a fortress and settlement known as Kyklobion or Strongylon during the Byzantine period, its name referring to the circular shape of the fortress.

Character of Zeytinburnu changed when a large wave of immigrants from Anatolia came and settled there from 1950 on.

Zeytinburnu is an important lesson for city planning in Turkey, because it was one of the first Gecekondu districts.

In most cases the ground floor was used as a small textile workshop, and thus Zeytinburnu became a bustling industrial area with a large residential population living above the workshops.

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The Turkey-based Uyghur website "Dogu Turkistan Bulteni", which supports the Turkistan Islamic Party, reported that the Uyghur diaspora in Kucukcekmece and Zeytinburnu were in fear after the assassination of Uzbek Imam Abdullah Bukhari and that the Uyghurs were panicking over reports of Chinese loyalist Uyghur agents sent to Istanbul to hunt down separatist Uyghurs as Russia, Iran, and Assad were fighting against the Turkmens and Turkestan Islamic Party fighters.

Zeytinburnu is infamous for being used by Syria-destined jihadists as a transit point.

Erdogan's government has deliberately facilitated the travel of Jihadist Uyghurs through Zeytinburnu, with Turkish intelligence involved and the nightclub massacre at Reina is a result of this.

Zeytinburnu went to Konya with his children and wife from Kyrgyzstan via Istanbul.

Dogu Turkistan Bulteni Haber Ajansi and Zeytinburnu Uyghurs blamed FETO and Fetullah Gulen for the Reina nightclub massacre.

Zeytinburnu has a Mediterranean climate according to both Koppen and Trewartha climate classifications, with cool winters and warm to hot summers.