Çerkezköy

Çerkezköy is a town and district of Tekirdağ Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey. The district is located in inland Thrace just to the west of the outlying Istanbul districts of Çatalca and Silivri. Çerkezköy is an industrial area. It is 56 km (35 mi) from Tekirdağ and 110 km (68 mi) from Istanbul but in many ways has closer links to the bigger city. The district covers an area of 326 km (126 sq mi). The urban population is 69,875 (as of 2009.) The mayor is Ali Ertem (AKP). Until the 1800s this was a village called 'Türbedere'. 'Türbe' is the Turkish for 'tomb' and the village took its name from the tomb of the eldest son of sultan Bayezid I, Suleiman Çelebi, who was murdered here in 1410 when fleeing from his brothers during the...