Migration started from the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia to the districts of Fener and Balat in 1985, which is about the same time that work was done to clean the Haliç inlet. For the people who came through forced migration, not only did they not have a village or hometown to return to but they also didn’t have a job waiting for them. The reason people choose this place was indeed its closeness to working areas downtown and its cheap rent. The last migration wave that occurred in that period formed the district’s present social and economic structure.
Di sala 1985an de hewldana ji bo paqijkirina Haliçê destpê kir û di heman demê de welatiyên ji herêma rojhilat û başûr-rojhilat koç dikirin, dihatin li semtên Fener-Balatê bi cih dibûn. Welatiyên ku bi darê zorê koç kiribûn, êdî ti warê wan nemabû ku bizivirin û ji xwe re li vir jî kar peyda nekiribûn ku bixebitin. Sedema hatina wan ê Balatê, nêzikbûna deverên kar û kiriyên erzan bûn. Piştî koçkirina wê demê, civaka Balatê ya niha, kêm zêde derket holê.