page_title: Çerkezköy
section_title: Çerkezköy today
hierarchical_section_title: Çerkezköy / Çerkezköy today
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial view of Çerkezköy District's industrial area between the towns of Kapaklı (upper left), Karaağaç (lower left), Çerkezköy (right), and Kızılpınar (lower right). Nederlands: Luchtfoto van het industriegebied van het District Çerkezköy tussen de steden Kapaklı (linksboven), Karaağaç (links), Çerkezköy (rechts), and Kızılpınar (rechtsonder).
context_page_description: Çerkezköy is a town and district of Tekirdağ Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey.
context_section_description: Today industrial development has spread beyond the originally designated industrial area and all kinds of goods are produced in the hundreds and hundreds of factories in Çerkezköy, including textiles, plastic and rubber goods, paints and chemicals. Prominent manufacturers include the large white goods manufacturers Arçelik, and Sabancı Holding's woollen textile factory Yünsa. 
  Now only 15% of the people work in agriculture and Çerkezköy has a large industrial working class population, living in housing projects sprawled around the fringes of the town. The Caucasusian identity that gave the town its name no longer exists, it has been swamped by an influx of people from all over Turkey. There are jobs here and the town is easily reached by bus from Istanbul. 
  The town centre is a typical Turkish collection of rows of grey low-rise blocks containing public buildings, small supermarkets, banks, and kebab restaurants, with a square in the middle containing a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and nearby a large central mosque. 
  The military base in Çerkezköy is Turkey's biggest centre for basic training in military service. The town is well equipped with schools, hospitals and other infrastructure.
caption: Aerial view of Çerkezköy District's industrial area between the towns of Kapaklı (upper left), Karaağaç (lower left), Çerkezköy (right), and Kızılpınar (lower right) (October 2016)
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