The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi talks about the Kâğıthane Creek with all these features in the section he describes Istanbul in his work Seyahatname.

[1] Kâpaperhane and its surroundings, which could not recapture their old glory later, faced intense internal migration to Istanbul after the 1950s.

Slum-like settlements concentrated in the stream bed grew unplanned and evolved into today's neighborhoods.

Infrastructure shortage and crooked urbanization and wrong planning have created major problems for the creek.

Since the creek was taken underground by covering it above ground, it carried it in rainy seasons and did not fit in its bed, causing great damage to the surrounding settlements.