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İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport

international airport in İzmir, Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ504382 ↗
Source-derived summary

İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport (IATA: ADB, ICAO: LTBJ) is an international airport serving the city of İzmir and most of the surrounding İzmir province in Turkey. It is named after former Turkish prime minister Adnan Menderes (1899–1961).

Overview

İzmir's main airport is located 14 km (8.7 mi) southwest of the city center in the Gaziemir district along the D.550/E87 highway, which continues south through Selçuk and Aydın before eventually reaching Gökova in Muğla. The new international terminal, which was designed by Yakup Hazan Architecture, opened in September 2006, with the new domestic terminal opening around March 2014. It replaced Çiğli Air Base which is now used only as a military base.

In 2025, ADB served 12.7 million passengers, 7.6 million of which were domestic passengers. It ranks 5th among Turkish airports in terms of total passenger traffic (after Istanbul Airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport, Antalya Airport, Ankara Esenboğa Airport), and 4th in terms of domestic passenger traffic (after Istanbul Airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport and Ankara Esenboğa Airport) within the country. It is also one of the busiest airports in the Middle East.

ADB has two runways, 16R/34L and 16L/34R; however, the two runways cannot operate simultaneously due to both their proximity and the lack of a dedicated taxiway to runway 16R/34L in the past. This has led to the use of runway 16L/34R as the primary runway, while runway 16R/34L is used mostly as a parallel taxiway, although it is available for use as a backup if the main runway is undergoing maintenance or is unavailable for any other reason.

Editorial summary

“İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport” enters the record as international airport in İzmir, Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what İzmir, Adnan and Menderes can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1899, 1961, 2006, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987. Its strongest next move is a source search built around İzmir, Adnan and Menderes.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, İzmir, Adnan and Menderes provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q504382. Authority coordinates are 38.289, 27.155. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1899, 1961, 2006 and 2014.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from “İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport” 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.