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," Büyük Türkçe Sözlük. URL: http://www.tdk.gov.tr/index.php?option=com_bts&view=bts or "graveyard for executed criminals and paupers."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 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).Şahin, Ak, and Kömürcüoğlu, p. 18.
Çürüklük is one of the historic Romani ("Gypsy") neighborhoods of Istanbul, along with Selamsız, Sulukule, Küçükbakkalköy, Tophane, Çayırboyu, and Lonca."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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