Çürüklük is a small neighborhood in Kasımpaşa in the Beyoğlu municipality on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey.

The word çürüklük means "rottenness," "garbage dump," [1] or "graveyard for executed criminals and paupers."[2] The area is said to have been built on the site of a Byzantine garbage dump that stretched from Elmadağ in Şişli to Tepebaşı in Beyoğlu (near the present British Consulate).[3]

Çürüklük is one of the historic Romani people in Turkey (Gypsy) neighborhoods of Istanbul, along with Selamsız, Sulukule, Küçükbakkalköy, Tophane, Çayırboyu, and Lonca.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Büyük Türkçe Sözlük. URL: http://www.tdk.gov.tr/index.php?option=com_bts&view=bts
  2. ↑ Kenan Şahin, Behiç Ak, and Nilgün Kömürcüoğlu. "Kasımpaşa'da Çürüklük Sokağı Üzerine Notlar." Mimarlık 19.5 (1981), p. 17. URL: http://dergi.mo.org.tr/dergiler/4/431/6201.pdf
  3. ↑ Şahin, Ak, and Kömürcüoğlu, p. 18.
  4. ↑ "Oyuncu Kollarından Sulukule Evlerine." Star (newspaper), 15 April 2007. Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20110720015527/http://www.stargazete.com/mobil/pazar/oyuncu-kollarindan-sulukule-evlerine-haber-67785.mob


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