This article is about the municipal subdivision of Istanbul. For the historic neighbourhood in the Beşiktaş district with the same name, see Arnavutköy.
In 2008 the district Arnavutköy was created from parts of the districts Çatalca and Gaziosmanpaşa. The urban part of the new district, 29 neighbourhoods, was established as a municipality.[5][6] At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.[7]