Gecekondu
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A Gecekondu is defined by the Redhouse Yeni Elsözlüğü İngilizce-Türkçe/Türkçe-İngilizce (The New Redhouse Portable English-Turkish Turkish-English Dictionary) as a house put up quickly without proper permissions; squatter's house; a shack of a house, shanty, shack.
In Turkish, gece literally means night and kondu means stayed for the night or camped/bivouacked. In common usage, it refers to low cost apartment buildings that were put up in a very short time to accommodate an increasing urban population. Such buildings were often finished without going through the necessary procedures required for construction such as acquiring building permits and are very densely populated.
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