The city of Başakşehir looks like an architectural masterpiece crowning Istanbul in its European section with its modern European-style buildings and charming nature that takes the door of minds, as for the details, Başakşehir is located in the European part of Istanbul and is bordered on four sides by several areas:
- • Arnavutköy area from the northern side.
- • Eyup Sultan area from the northeast.
- • Bagcılar, Kuçukçekmece and Avcılar districts from the south.
- • Sultangazi and Esenler neighborhoods from the east.
- • Esenyurt area from the southwest.
The population of the city of “Başakşehir” in 2020 reached about 469 thousand people, or nearly half a million, due to its distinction on several levels, including:
1. Medical Services:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inaugurated Başakşehir Çam and Sakura Medical City on May 21, 2020.
Başakşehir Medical City is one of the most important joint medical projects between Turkey and Japan, and the name of the pine trees and the cherry blossom was chosen to be added to the official name of the city because they symbolize adherence to life and permanent renewal, and the city has been afforested with more than a thousand trees of the two types mentioned.
This city was established on a closed area estimated at one million and 21 thousand square meters and is built with an earthquake-resistant system, as (2068) seismic insulators were used, and it consists of 10 buildings and contains 3 runways for landing helicopters and two conference halls with a capacity of 654 people each.
This huge city includes eight specialized sub-hospitals:
- – General Hospital
- – Children’s Hospital
- – Private hospital for obstetrics and gynecology
- – Private hospital for cardiovascular diseases
- – Private orthopedic and neurology hospital
- – Oncology Hospital
- – Hospital specialized in physiotherapy
- – Hospital specialized in rehabilitation and mental health
President Erdogan explained in a post through his accounts on social networking sites that the medical city of “Basaksehir Çam and Sakura” is capable of receiving 35,000 patients per day, including 7,000 patients in the ambulance department and about one million patients per month, and that this city consists of 2682 beds, 1174 individual patient rooms, 464 twin patient rooms, 456 intensive care rooms, 90 operating rooms and 982 clinics.
Just one year after its opening, this city has provided medical care to nearly 2.5 million patients, making the city’s hospitals one of the most important medical edifices in Turkey and the world.
2. Tourism:
If you are a fan of tourist trips around the world, you must visit Başakşehir, as it has many charming places such as the Water Valley, the artificial Başakşehir Lake, and the Başakşehir Botanical Garden, which was opened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the end of 2018 to be a lung of life for visitors and residents in the nearby areas, as it has at least 25 different types of flowers, as well as walking and bicycle paths, private playgrounds, seating areas, a reading hall and water bodies, Those in charge of it did not forget to build a mosque called Salah al-Din to save visitors the trouble of searching for a nearby mosque to perform prayers.
If you are a fan of tourist trips around the world, you must visit Başakşehir, as it has many charming places such as the Water Valley, the artificial Başakşehir Lake, and the Başakşehir Botanical Garden, which was opened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the end of 2018 to be a lung of life for visitors and residents in the nearby areas, as it has at least 25 different types of flowers, as well as walking and bicycle paths, private playgrounds, seating areas, a reading hall and water bodies, Those in charge of it did not forget to build a mosque called Salah al-Din to save visitors the trouble of searching for a nearby mosque to perform prayers.
For lovers of natural places, you can visit the protected forest in the Çamlar area, which contains many parks and entertainment venues, or visit the Yarımburgaz Cave, which is located in the Altınşehir area and is estimated to be between 400-600 thousand years BC, and the archaeological cave contains many scientific discoveries dating back to the Bronze Age.
As for medical tourism, it is the share of the medical city of “Başakşehir Çam ve Sakura”, as Dr. Idris Kurtuluc, Vice President of the Medical City and Chief Physician of the General Hospital, told Anadolu Agency that many Turkish and foreign citizens prefer this hospital over others to receive treatment due to its advantages such as providing hotel accommodation service in the hospital with A+ quality for patients to benefit from without paying additional amounts and the location of Turkey, which is an hour or two away from about thirty countries around the world.
3. Educational Services:
Parents looking for a bright educational future for their children by residing in Başakşehir find a suitable solution for them, as the city contains a large number of public, private and Arab schools as well, due to the large number of Arabs living in it, in addition to public and private universities, the most famous of which is Ibn Khaldun University, which specializes in humanities and social sciences, as it offers scholarships to foreign students on an annual basis, and Ibn Khaldun University ranked second among all universities in the percentage of students benefiting from scholarships.
The official start of teaching at Ibn Khaldun University at the beginning of the academic year 2017-2018, as it received 215 university students (150 from Turkey and 65 from abroad), and what distinguishes Ibn Khaldun University is the typical number of students compared to other universities, which increases the opportunities for interest and follow-up for each student separately in addition to the strong teaching staff.
English is the main language of instruction and the university offers courses in various languages such as French, Russian, German, Spanish, Malay and Mandarin.
As for the splendor of construction, the campus at Ibn Khaldun University was built in the Andalusian way, and the beauty of this educational edifice was increased by its huge facilities such as the library, which provides services to students around the clock, seven days a week, in addition to the sports center, which includes (a swimming pool, two football fields, a tennis court, a basketball court and another for volleyball) and the presence of university housing within the university, which saves students time and effort to reach the university.
4. Transportation:
Başakşehir is characterized by a huge transportation network that connects the city’s neighborhoods to each other, and Başakşehir connects to the most important areas in Istanbul, for example, we have the Başakşehir metro line that connects Başakşehir to: Ataturk Airport, the Marmaray line connecting the continents of Asia and Europe, and the metro lines that reach Taksim, Beşiktas, Mecidiyekoy, and many other areas in Istanbul.
In addition to a wide network of buses, buses reach Başakşehir from all areas of Istanbul, and work is underway to strengthen the area with a wide network of railway lines soon.
5. Real Estate Investment:
Başakşehir is described as one of the most important areas that real estate lovers want to invest in, as it is a city with advanced infrastructure and enjoys integrated services and charming nature, and it also enjoys an excellent location, which is what matters most to any investor, as it is located near Istanbul’s new airport, one of the largest airports in the world, and the new Canal Istanbul called the New Bosphorus, which doubled real estate prices in it several times, before the completion of the digging of the Istanbul Canal even.
According to experts in real estate investment, Başakşehir is one of the most attractive areas in Istanbul for Turkish and foreign citizens to live and settle, which led to a significant increase in demand for real estate and was another reason for its high prices.
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