This nature park lies in the Bahçeköy quarter of Sarıyer and covers twenty-three hectares. Declared a nature park by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in 2011, it is one of nine nature parks within the Belgrade Forest. It is named in honour of Mehmet Akif Ersoy, the poet, writer, academic and member of parliament who wrote the Turkish national anthem, who lived from 1873 to 1936.
The vegetation is middle-aged and old forest trees: oriental plane, black pine, silver lime, hornbeam, Hungarian and sessile oak, common ash, oriental beech and alder, with bramble, tree heath, oriental arborvitae, blackthorn, evergreen spindle, Chinese photinia, bay, Japanese pittosporum, goat willow, butcher's broom, lavender, red dead-nettle and dandelion beneath and among them.
- Designated
- 11.07.2011
Entry fee
- Marmara group 2 · category 1 · Per person
- 75 ₺
When to go
- Climate
- Across İstanbul as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.8 °C in January to 24.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (99 mm) and lightest in July (22 mm). Long-term means for 1950-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
