Kadıköy (Turkish pronunciation: [kaˈdɯcøj] ⓘ) is a municipality and district on the Asian side of Istanbul Province, Turkey.

Relics dating to 5500–3500 BC (Chalcolithic period) have been found at the Fikirtepe Mound, and articles of stone, bone, ceramic, jewelry and bronze show that there has been a continuous settlement since prehistoric times.

In the Ottoman period, Kadıköy became a market for agricultural goods and in time developed into a residential area for people who would commute to the city by boat.

According to Ottoman estimations of 1882, the district of Kadıköy had a total population of 6,733, consisting of 2,695 Muslims, 1,831 Armenians, 1,822 Greeks, 249 Jews, 92 Latins, 28 Bulgarians and 16 Catholics.

The terminal closed due to infrastructure works in 2013[7] and reopened in 2018, serving east- and south-bound international, domestic and regional trains.

Public transportation with terminus in Kadıköy: To European side, For more lines, visit: http://www.iett.istanbul/en/main/hatlar Traditional ferries,[9] Sea buses,[10] For the main opposition party Republican People's Party (CHP), Kadıköy has been a stronghold in both local and national elections.

[11][12] Since 1989, the local electorate have voted for social democratic candidates to be chosen mayors, namely from the CHP aswell as the SHP, its 1980s coup-era counterpart.

Being a crowded shopping district, Kadıköy has many buskers, shoe shine boys, glue sniffers and schoolchildren in the streets selling flowers, chewing gum and packets of tissues.

The market area is mostly closed to traffic and contains a wide variety of fast food restaurants serving toasted sandwiches, hamburgers and döner.

Behind the coast, lies a large shopping and residential district winding uphill to the Bahariye Caddesi pedestrian zone.

Residents like to frequent the seaside to walk or sit in the grass with a view of the European side of Istanbul across the Bosporus.

As elsewhere in Istanbul, many historic houses have been demolished and replaced with apartment buildings; however, Moda is generally considered one of the more pleasant residential districts in the city.

There are numerous churches in Moda with active congregations, and well-known schools, such as the Lycée Saint-Joseph and Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi.

There is a small, attractive theatre in Moda named Oyun Atölyesi, founded by actor Haluk Bilginer.

The area is also well known for its multiple modern cafes, bars, shops and is popular among Istanbul's creative class and tourists.

Until the 1950s these areas, such as Göztepe, Caddebostan, Erenköy, and Suadiye, were full of summer houses and mansions for the city's wealthy upper middle class.

Since the Bosphorus Bridge was built, it has become easier to commute from here to the European side of Istanbul, and most of these summer houses have been demolished and replaced with modern apartment buildings.

[citation needed] These neighbourhoods are mainly built around wide avenues and tree-lined streets, with four to six-storey apartment buildings that have sizable gardens and car-parking around them.

These areas, Suadiye, Bağdat Avenue, Kalamış, Kozyatağı, Fenerbahçe have today, upper-middle or upper class residents.

This area has one of the best-known private hospitals in the city and a long avenue of cafés, restaurants and ice cream parlours.

In the late 1990s, new luxury housing developments such as Ataşehir began to be constructed in the previously undeveloped area north of the E5 highway.

The town serves as the Holy See for the Metropolis of Chalcedon, one of the four remaining metropolises of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Turkey today.

Hemdat Israel Synagogue, situated in Yeldeğirmeni neighbourhood close to Haydarpaşa Terminal, is one of the oldest Jewish houses of prayer in Istanbul.

[18] There are a high number of non-believers in Kadıköy, especially among the youth,[19] as the Atheism Association, the only atheism-related institution in Turkey is located here.