gecekondu

· (eb) The people from Istanbul Istanbul, like other major cities, attracts an increasing number of migrants from the countryside. These migrants have contributed to the use of shantytowns called gecekondu (literally "set down by night") that have no sanitation facilities. Some migrants work as porters, bearing upon their backs burdens of immense size and...

· (El País, 19.4.99) Mot turc: «com en los gececondular (poblados de infraviviendas) [...] un gececondu de la carretera del aeropuerto».