Şahinbey is a district of

Gaziantep Province Gaziantep Province ( tr, ) is a province in south-central Turkey. It is located in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region. Its capital is the city of Gaziantep. It neighbours Adıy ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

named after

Şahin Bey Mehmed Said (1877, Gaziantep, Aleppo Vilayet – 28 March 1920), better known as Şahin Bey, was the commander of the Turkish revolutionaries that were stationed in the city of Gaziantep during the Turkish War of Independence. Şahin Bey‘s Fa ...

(1877-1920), a

Turkish National Movement The Turkish National Movement ( tr, Türk Ulusal Hareketi) encompasses the political and military activities of the Turkish revolutionaries that resulted in the creation and shaping of the modern Republic of Turkey, as a consequence of the defe ...

commander. It is part of

Gaziantep Gaziantep (), previously and still informally #Name, called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, Turk ...

Metropolitan municipality. The population is 730,562 as of 2010. It is the location of a large amount of

student housing A dormitory (originated from the Latin word ''dormitorium'', often abbreviated to dorm) is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university ...

for the public University of Gaziantep, as well as the site of two private universities:

Zirve ''Zirve'' (''Peak'') is the sixth studio album by Turkish singer Demet Akalın. It was released by Seyhan Müzik on 23 April 2010 The release date was officially announced as 23 April 2010, but postponed because of air travel restrictions during ...

and Hasan Kalyoncu.

Notable natives

Göksu Üçtaş The Göksu (Turkish for "sky water" also called ''Geuk Su'', ''Goksu Nehri''; la, Saleph, grc, Καλύκαδνος, translit=Calycadnus) is a river on the Taşeli plateau (Turkey). Both its sources arise in the Taurus Mountains—the northern ...

(born 1990), Turkish female

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References

External links

Şahinbey Photos
Populated places in Gaziantep Province Districts of Gaziantep Province {{Gaziantep-geo-stub