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Gaziosmanpaşa
Bayrampaşa
Şişli
Pendik
The centre of Gaziosmanpaşa is still inhabited by the descendents of the 1950s and 1960s Balkan immigrants. Now most of the original illegal houses are being pulled down and replaced with semi-legal blocks of flats, to house the children and grand-children.
Following the Ottoman conquest of the city Turkish soldiers were settled here and the church converted to a mosque, the town becoming the classic Ottoman urban mix of Jews, Greeks, Turks and Armenians. It was occupied by Bulgarian troops in ....
Bayrampaşa
There is a sizable community of Bosniak-origin people in Bayrampaşa localized mostly around the district called Yıldırım Mahallesi. They came to Bayrampaşa at 1950's and 1960's.
Şişli
he Ottoman empire contracted Şişli attracted migrants from the former lands in Greece and the Balkans.
Pendik
In the 1990s a mass of refugees who escaped from the war in Bosnia settled in the Pendik district of Sapanbağları. Apart from naming their streets and shops after their village in Bosnia, these people have blended into the Istanbul working-class lifestyle of the rest of Pendik.