Beyazıt Square (Freedom Square)

Beyazıt Square, commonly called Beyazıt and officially Freedom Square, sits north of Ordu Caddesi in the Fatih district of Istanbul. The site overlays the former Roman Forum of Theodosius and is anchored on one side by the early Ottoman Bayezid II Mosque. The square has been subject to multiple urban-planning proposals in the 20th and 21st centuries (including an unrealised 1960 proposal by Turgut Cansever and a 2022 reorganisation by Ali Kural and Deniz Çalış Kural). The supplied sources focus on its historical and urban significance and do not document any paranormal incidents, named spirits, or cursed inns associated with the square or the adjacent Grand Bazaar area. Reported-phenomena coverage in the available material is explicitly absent: none of the cited sources provide eyewitness accounts, local oral traditions, police or municipal records, or investigative reports describing apparitions, hauntings, curses, poltergeist activity, or similar phenomena tied to Beyazıt Square or nearby inns. Any claims linking the square or Grand Bazaar inns to hauntings or curses are not supported by the provided research notes and would require independent corroboration from folklore collections, news reports, or primary oral-historical sources before being recorded as reported phenomena. Culturally and historically, the square's significance rests on its archaeological layering and its role in Ottoman and modern urban planning debates rather than on documented supernatural associations in the supplied materials.