Merkezefendi, Turkey

Merkezefendi is a new intracity district and second level municipality in Denizli Province, Turkey. According to Law act no 6360, all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750000, were declared metropolitan municipality. The law also created new districts within the capital city which have second level municipalities in addition the metropolitan municipality. Merkezefendi is one of them. Thus after 2014 a part of Denizli central district was named Merkezefendi and the name Denizli was reserved for the metropolitan municipality. (Merkez Efendi was the name of a 16th-century Sufi )