Karşıyaka

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Karşıyaka (on German counter- shore or Opposite bank) is a district in the Turkish province of Izmir and at the same time a municipality of Büyükşehir Belediyesi ( city municipality ) Izmir.

Karşıyaka is located northwest of the city center of Izmir on the north shore of the Gulf of Smyrna ( İzmir Körfezi ). The county is bordered on the east by Bayraklı and Bornova, to the north and to the west menemen Çiğli. To the south lies the coast of the Gulf.

In the urban center of Karşıyaka is one of the houses that belonged to the family of Latife Uşşaki, the wife of Atatürk and in which his mother died Zübeyde Hanim. It was restored in 2008.

Karşıyaka has the sports club Karşıyaka SK, the football department the county a total of 16 seasons long in the first Turkish football league in the Süper Lig, represented. Since the last Erstligaabstieg the summer of 1996, the club plays, with the exception of a two-year Drittliga period in the years 2001 to 2003 consistently in the second highest Turkish league, the TFF 1 Lig The basketball department plays in the Turkish league, in Türkiye Basketbol Ligi. While the football department in line with major competitors Altay Izmir and Izmir Göztepe represents the third most successful team in the city is the basketball department is the most successful team in the entire city.