 From the increase in mutual cooperation between Turkey and several African States like Somalia and Djibouti, several young students and workers have been migrating to Istanbul in search of better education and employment opportunities.Circa 2015 the major areas of African settlement are Eminönü and Yenikapi in Fatih, and Kurtulus and Osmanbey in Şişli.The largest groups of Africans that year were from Nigeria and Somalia, with the latter often working in business and the manufacturing of clothing.