Before the Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, the location of the quarter was mainly agricultural area, with only a detergent factory and a Turkish garrison. In 1966, in response to the overcrowding of the walled city due to the displacement of Turkish Cypriots from areas of Nicosia attacked by Greek Cypriots, such as &lt;a href="Omorfita"&gt;Omorfita/Küçük Kaymaklı&lt;/a&gt;, the first houses in the area were built. The first 32 houses built were filled up within 10 days. As the overcrowding continued, new houses continued to be built by the Turkish Cypriot authorities, who opened a brick factory in the area to assist the construction. Within the decade, Göçmenköy saw great urban growth and itself became overcrowded, while a sense of solidarity developed between its inhabitants, named "göçmen" (Turkish for "displaced"). Writer Hüseyin Çakmak claimed that the population of the area at this time was around 5,000. After the 1974 conflict, some people left Göçmenköy for other parts of Northern Cyprus, while others displaced from the south moved in.