Selamsız

Selamsız is a quarter in Üsküdar district on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey.

[3] Selamsız is one of the historic Romani (Turkish-Gypsy) settlements of Istanbul, along with Sulukule, Çürüklük, Küçükbakkalköy, Tophane, Çayırboyu, and Lonca, and has been since the 1700s.

[4][5][6] However, 5000 Romanis are reported to have been evicted from the area in 1996,[7] because they were living in shanty buildings which the municipality planned to demolish and rebuild according to standards.

[8] The oldest Romani group are the Tekkekapolo and the Kağıtçılar (Papermaker), recorded since 1730-1735, later after 1923 the semi-nomadic Badırmalıdes, came in the quarter.

[9] Mostly Turkish Roma, are members of the Hindiler Tekkesi a Qadiriyya-Tariqa, founded in 1738 by the Indian Muslim Sheykh Seyfullah Efendi El Hindi in Selamsız.