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'Çiğli' is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey. It is one of the metropolitan districts of İzmir and constitutes the northern end of the greater municipal area of İzmir. To the north of Çiğli itself starts Menemen district. Çiğli is divided into 23 subdistricts and one separate depending municipality.
Çiğli is a settlement that sprang up and acquired a status quite recently. Its name draws a reference from the marshlands of the River Gediz delta that used to cover the area of the entire district of Çiğli, ''çiğ'' meaning ''dew'' in Turkish.
Thus the population tissue is shaped in full by recent immigration, starting as of the late-19th century with the Turkish refugees of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) some among the Turkish population of the region found a safer refuge in the marshlands, especially in the general sense of despair caused by the Menemen massacre of 17 June 1919. In the first years of the Republic of Turkey, Çiğli became a village, under the present name, with the settlement here of Turks of Western Thrace. The village grew large enough to become a township with own municipality, and the population was further increased when Çiğli welcomed the survivors of two successive earthquakes in Varto and Hınıs, adjacent districts in eastern Anatolia, in 1946 and 1966, which claimed thousands of lives. Economic immigration into Çiğli from eastern Anatolia continues at a steady pace since then.
Çiğli became part of the İzmir metropolitan area in 1981, first as a dependence of the district and municipality of Karşıyaka, and after 1992, as a distinct entity possessing its own administrative structures. Çiğli has one depending township with own municipality, Şaşalı, and one village within its boundaries, Kaklıç, although the respective populations of these two settlements are roughly the same at around 3000 people for each.
İzmir's airport used to be situated within the boundaries of Çiğli and carried the same name as the town, until when the international Adnan Menderes Airport, situated south of the metropolitan area, entered into service.
Situated at sea level, Çiğli district borders in its west on the actual delta of the River Gediz, an area already encroached upon by urbanization, and that figures among the headlines within Turkey's environmental issues, since many would like to see the full protection of the delta assured in order to preserve its unique fauna and flora, particularly with a view to the delta's importance on bird migration routes. The delta is an IBA (Important Bird Area) registered at the BirdLife International.

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★ Metropolitan Municipality of Greater İzmir
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