Walking in Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷: Kadiköy District (Asian Side), Part 2, 4K, summer

Walking in Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷: Kadiköy District (Asian Side), 4K, summer, tourism
Kadıköy, known in classical antiquity and during the Roman and Byzantine eras as Chalcedon (Greek: Χαλκηδών), is a large, populous, and cosmopolitan district in the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey, on the northern shore of the Sea of Marmara. It partially faces the historic city centre of Fatih on the European side of the Bosporus. One of the expensive neighborhood in Istanbul. Kadıköy is also the name of the most prominent neighbourhood of the district, a residential and commercial area that, with its numerous bars, cinemas and bookshops, is the liberal cultural centre of the Anatolian side of Istanbul. Kadıköy became a district in 1928 when it was separated from Üsküdar district. The neighbourhoods of İçerenköy, Bostancı and Suadiye were also separated from the district of Kartal in the same year,[citation needed] and eventually joined the newly formed district of Kadıköy. Its neighbouring districts are Üsküdar to the northwest, Ataşehir to the northeast, Maltepe to the southeast, and Kartal beyond Maltepe.

Kadıköy is a busy shopping district, with a wide variety of atmospheres and architectural styles. The streets are varied, some being narrow alleyways and others, such as Bahariye Caddesi, being pedestrian zones. Turkey's biggest food market is there, starting next to the Osman Ağa Mosque, and has an immense turnover of fresh foods and other products from all around Turkey, including a wide range of fresh fish and seafood, olive oil soap, and so on. There are also modern shopping centres, most notably the large Tepe Nautilus Shopping Mall behind the center of Kadıköy, and pavements crowded with street vendors selling socks, unlicensed copies of popular novels, and other products. In the streets behind the main post office, there is a large number of well-known bookshops selling both new and second-hand books, craft-shops and picture-framers, and a number of shops selling music CDs and related ephemera such as film posters and T-shirts. Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music is sold in the arcade named Akmar Pasajı, where associated items are also sold. On Sundays this area becomes a large second-hand book and music street market. Being a crowded shopping district, Kadıköy has many buskers, shoe shine boys, glue sniffers and schoolchildren in the streets selling flowers, chewing gum and packets of tissues.

At the top of the shopping district there is an intersection, with a statue of a bull, called Altıyol (Six Ways), where a road leads to the civic buildings and a huge street market called Salı Pazarı (Tuesday Market). The working-class residential districts of Hasanpaşa and Fikirtepe are located behind the civic buildings.

Kadıköy (Acerca de este sonido es un distrito de la provincia de Estambul, Turquía y se encuentra en la parte asiática de la ciudad de Estambul. Zona cosmopolita y comercial de la urbe, siendo el distrito más poblado de la ciudad-provincia
En la actualidad el centro de Kadıköy es un nudo de comunicaciones, lugar de negocios, zona comercial y punto de paso para los habitantes de Estambul que viajan del lado asiático de la ciudad al europeo y viceversa. El centro del distrito en sí es un cúmulo de nuevas edificaciones y antiguas casas y edificios de anteriores residentes alemanes, franceses, griegos y armenios que habitaban en gran número este distrito durante la época otomana —de ahí el número de iglesias y cementerios de otras creencias religiosas— que dotan de una peculiar característica cosmopolita a este distrito y que en la actualidad alberga a la clase obrera o clase media así como a numerosos estudiantes —aquí se halla, por ejemplo la Universidad de Mármara— aunque barrios como Moda, Kozyatağı o Fenerbahçe albergan nuevos edificios con grandes avenidas comerciales y tiendas de lujo en los que se aloja la clase media-alta.