Sancaktepe is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.

The urban part of the new district was established as a municipality.

[4][5] At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.

[6] There are 19 neighbourhoods in Sancaktepe District:[7] Sancaktepe's oldest historic structure is Damatris Summer Palace that was built by I. Tiberius Konstantinos (578–582) and Maurice (582–602) in Byzantine Age.

The Ottoman Empire conquered this area completely in 1328.