page_title: Kayabaşı, Başakşehir
section_title: Population Exchange
hierarchical_section_title: Kayabaşı, Başakşehir / History / Population Exchange
caption_attribution_description: English: A wedding in public square of Kayabaşı
context_page_description: Kayabaşı is a district of Başakşehir in İstanbul. It was formerly known as Ayayorgi and Azatlı until the Greco-Turkish population exchange of 1923.
  Kayabaşı was a district of Bakırköy until 1987 then it was a quarter of Küçükçekmece where was a part of the Çatalca kaza until 1908. By the last change of administrative division of İstanbul in 2009 it is a quarter of Başakşehir.
context_section_description: Because of Treaty of Lausanne village was included the Greco-Turkish population exchange of 1923. Muslim inhabitants left from Kovitsa in Drama by train from Drama train station. Muslim inhabitants firstly settled in Yeşilköy in Istanbul but it is not suitable for animal husbandry especially goat raising. Then they settled in Kayabaşı and Mahmutşevketpaşa in Istanbul, and also others Halitpaşa in Manisa, Kadıköy in Keşan, Yağcılar in Akhisar and some villages of Orhangazi, and İznik in Bursa, hence Orthodox Christian inhabitants in Kayabaşı most of them went to Kayalar(Greek: Πτολεμαΐδα, Ptolemaïda) in Greece from Turkey.
  Orthodox inhabitants of Kayabaşı marked living by vineyard and farming in particular. Kayabaşı remains water wells and tile drain ruins and part of wall ruins of church from Orthodox inhabitants. There are remained houses which was built by Orthodox inhibitans and there are still some old houses which was built by first Muslim inhabitants.
  
  There were two church in Kayabaşı during the population exchange. Current mosque was built from a different palace of church with demolished church materials in 1950s. There was a school which was built in 1930s rebuilt with current school building in 2000s.
  Nowadays, livestock and farming is gradually decreasing because of expropriation to establish new city cite. Some of villagers migrated abord because of changing business facilities.
caption: A wedding in public square of Kayabaşı
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