Güngören is hard to distinguish from its neighbouring districts in the industrial area north of the E5 highway , districts such as Merter or the poorer parts of Bahçelievler . Like them it has seen a rapid and uncontrolled influx of migrants from Anatolia since the 1950s . In 1955 this was an open space with a small village named Vidos on it . Then a main road out of the city to the west was put through here and people began to build houses near the road . Most were built illegally . Today there are 237,000 crammed into a tight mass of cheap apartment blocks . The district was the site of the 2008 Istanbul bombings
2008 Istanbul bombings
2008 Istanbul bombings
Güngören