İSTOÇ station
metro station in İstanbul, Turkey
İSTOÇ is an underground rapid transit station on the M3 line of the Istanbul Metro. It is located in the northwestern tip of Bağcılar under the Istanbul Wholesalers Market (Turkish: İstanbul Toptancılar Çarşısı, shortened as İSTOÇ). Opened on 14 June 2013 it has an island platform serviced by two tracks.
Layout
Operation information
The line operates between 06:00 and 00:00 and train frequency is 7 minutes at peak hours and 10 minutes at all other times. The line has no night service.
“İSTOÇ station” enters the record as metro station in İstanbul, Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what İSTOÇ, station and metro can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22952128. Authority coordinates are 41.065, 28.826. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.
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This entry incorporates text from “İSTOÇ station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.