Due to its location the place is excellent for taking pictures of nearby spots from up high.

A small ‘gecekondu’ neighbourhood nearby.

‘Gecekondu’ (plural gecekondular) is a Turkish word meaning a house put up quickly without proper permissions, a squatter's house, and by extension, a shanty or shack. In Turkish, ‘gece’ means "(at) night" and ‘kondu’ means "placed"; thus the term gecekondu comes to mean "placed (built) overnight".

In common usage, it refers to the low cost buildings or houses that were constructed in a very short time by people migrating from rural areas to the outskirts of the large cities.
These squatters exploited a legal loophole which states that if one starts building after dusk and moves into a roofed ‘house’ before dawn the next day (without having been noticed by the authorities), then the authorities are not permitted to tear the ‘building’ down without a legal proceeding in court (and thus it is more likely one can stay). These ‘gecekondu’ areas are usually very densely populated. It is reported that almost half the residents of Istanbul - some six million people - dwell in gecekondu homes.

The gecekondu phenomenon is directly linked with the problems of unemployment and poverty in the rural areas of Turkey, especially in the east of the country. In many instances entire villages have migrated to the outskirts of the large industrialized cities in order to seek a better standard of living.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: (among others) Wikipedia.