Çürüklük is a small neighborhood in Kasımpaşa in the Beyoğlu municipality on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey.
The word çürüklük means "rottenness," "garbage dump," [1] or "graveyard for executed criminals and paupers."[2] The area is said to have been built on the site of a Byzantine garbage dump that stretched from Elmadağ in Şişli to Tepebaşı in Beyoğlu (near the present British Consulate).[3]
Çürüklük is one of the historic Romani people in Turkey (Gypsy) neighborhoods of Istanbul, along with Selamsız, Sulukule, Küçükbakkalköy, Tophane, Çayırboyu, and Lonca.[4]