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This article is about the Turkish city. For Smyrna from the earliest through the Archaic Periods, see Old Smyrna. For Smyrna from the Hellenistic through Byzantine Periods, see Smyrna. For the province of İzmir, see İzmir Province. For other uses, see İzmir (disambiguation).
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İzmir,

urban agglomeration on the Aegean Sea
.

In 2019, the city of İzmir had a population of 2,965,900, while İzmir Province had a total population of 4,367,251.

Gediz River Delta; to the east along an alluvial plain created by several small streams; and to slightly more rugged terrain in the south.[6]

İzmir has more than 3,000 years of recorded urban history, and up to 8,500 years of history as a human settlement since the Neolithic period. In classical antiquity the city was known as Smyrna (/ˈsmɜːrnə/ SMUR-nə; Greek: Σμύρνη, romanized: Smýrni/Smýrnē) – a name which remained in use in English and various other languages until around 1930, when government efforts led the original Greek name to be gradually phased out internationally in favor of its Turkish counterpart İzmir.[7] Until the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey, İzmir had a very large Greek population.

Lying on an advantageous location at the head of a gulf running down in a deep indentation, midway along the western Anatolian coast, İzmir has been one of the principal mercantile cities of the Mediterranean Sea for much of its history. It hosted the Mediterranean Games in 1971 and the World University Games (Universiade) in 2005. The city participated in Climathon in 2019.[8]

Names

The modern name İzmir is the Turkish rendering of the Greek name Smyrna and "Smyrne" (Σμύρνη). In medieval times, Westerners used forms like Smire, Zmirra, Esmira, Ismira, which was rendered as İzmir into Turkish, originally written as ازمير with the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.[9]

Main features

NASA Earth Observatory photo of İzmir, taken from the International Space Station on 16 May 2011, highlighting the modern urban landscape of the city

İzmir has over 3,000 years of recorded urban history and up to 8,500 years of history as a human settlement since the Neolithic period.[citation needed] Set in an advantageous location at the head of a gulf in a deep indentation midway along the western Anatolian coast, the city has been one of the principal mercantile ports of the Mediterranean Sea for much of its history. When the Ottomans took over İzmir in the 15th century, they did not inherit compelling historical memories, unlike the other key points of the Ottoman trade network, namely Constantinople (Istanbul), Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo.[citation needed]

The emergence of İzmir as a major international port by the 17th century was largely a result of the attraction it exercised over foreigners and the city's European orientation.[10] Politically, İzmir is considered a stronghold of Kemalism and the Republican People's Party (CHP).

SMEs, affirm their names with an increasingly wider global scale and intensity.[11]

İzmir hosted the

Universiade) in 2005. In March 2008, İzmir submitted its bid to the BIE for hosting the Universal Expo 2015, but it was won by Milan, Italy
.

A panoramic view of the Alsancak quarter within the Konak district of İzmir

History

For a chronological guide, see Timeline of İzmir.

Ancient times

Alexander the Great

Mount Pagos (Kadifekale
) were chosen for the foundation of the new city, for which Alexander is credited, and this act laid the ground for a resurgence in the city's population.

Roman rule

Agora of Smyrna, built during the Hellenistic era at the base of Pagos Hill and totally rebuilt under Marcus Aurelius after the destructive 178 AD earthquake in Smyrna
Head of the poet Sappho found in ancient Smyrna. Roman marble copy of an original statue from the Hellenistic period, at the Istanbul Archaeology Museums.

In 133 BC, Eumenes III, the last king of the Attalid dynasty of

Province of Asia and enjoyed a new period of prosperity. Towards the close of the 1st century AD, Smyrna appeared as one of the seven churches of Asia (Revelation 2:9). Apostle John
urged his followers to remain Christians: "Be faithful to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life" (Revelation 2:10).

Given the importance of the city, Roman emperors who came to Anatolia also visited Smyrna. In early AD 124, Emperor Hadrian visited Smyrna on his journeys across the Empire[12] and possibly Caracalla came in 214–215. Smyrna was a fine city with stone-paved streets.

In AD 178, the city was devastated by an earthquake. Emperor Marcus Aurelius contributed greatly to the rebuilding of the city. During this period the agora was restored. Many of the works of architecture from the city's pre-Turkish period date from this period.

After the

Eastern Roman Empire
. The city kept its status as a notable religious center in the early Byzantine period, but never returned to the Roman levels of prosperity.

Medieval period

Beylik of Aydın
in the 14th century

The

New Phocaea (now part of the İzmir Province) from 1275 to 1340.[16][17]

Smyrna was captured again in the 14th century by Umur Bey, the son of the founder of the

Beylik of Aydın who first took the upper fort of Mount Pagos (thereafter called Kadifekale), and then the lower port castle of Neon Kastron (called St. Peter by the Genoese and as "Ok Kalesi" by the Turks). As Tzachas had done two centuries before, Umur Bey used the city as a base for naval raids. In 1344, a coalition of forces coordinated by Pope Clement VI took back the lower castle in a surprise attack in the Smyrniote crusades
. A sixty-year period of uneasy cohabitation between the two powers, the Beyliks holding the upper castle and the Knights the lower, followed by Umur Bey's death in 1348.

Ottoman rule

Hisar Mosque (1592–1598) in the Kemeraltı neighbourhood of İzmir
Old Ottoman houses in Urla, İzmir
The port of İzmir, from an 1883 encyclopedia

The upper city of İzmir was captured from its Aydinid rulers by the

Petronium (Bodrum) instead.[citation needed
]

In a landward-looking arrangement somewhat against its nature, the city and its present-day dependencies became an Ottoman

Anatolia, with its capital in Kütahya or in "Cezayir" (i.e. "Islands" referring to "the Aegean Islands"). In the 15th century, two notable events for the city were a surprise Venetian raid in 1475 and the arrival of Sephardic Jews from Spain after 1492; they later made İzmir one of their principal urban centers in Ottoman lands. İzmir may have been a rather sparsely populated place in the 15th and 16th centuries, as indicated by the first extant Ottoman records describing the town dating from 1528. In 1530, 304 adult males, both tax-paying and tax-exempt were on record, 42 of them Christians. There were five urban wards, one of these situated in the immediate vicinity of the port, rather active despite the town's small size and where the non-Muslim population was concentrated. By 1576, İzmir had grown to house 492 taxpayers in eight urban wards and had a number of dependent villages.[20]
This corresponded to a total population estimated between 3500 and 5000.

International port city

İzmir's remarkable growth began in the late 16th century when cotton and other products of the region brought French, English, Dutch and Venetian traders here.[citation needed] With the privileged trading conditions accorded to foreigners in 1620 (these were the infamous capitulations that were later to cause a serious threat and setback for the Ottoman state in its decline), İzmir began to be one of the foremost trade centers of the Empire. Foreign consulates moved from Chios to the city by the early 17th century (1619 for the French Consulate, 1621 for the British), serving as trade centers for their nations. Each consulate had its own quay, where the ships under their flag would anchor. The long campaign for the conquest of Crete (22 years between 1648 and 1669) also considerably enhanced İzmir's position within the Ottoman realm since the city served as a port of dispatch and supply for the troops.[21]

Historical affiliations

Roman Empire 133 BC–395
Byzantine Empire 395–1076
Seljuk Empire 1076–1081
Chaka Bey 1081–1097
Byzantine Empire 1097–1204
Knights Hospitaller 1204–1209
Empire of Nicaea 1209–1261
Byzantine Empire 1261–1330

Beylik of Aydin
1330–1344
Beylik of Aydin
1344–1402
Timurid Empire 1402–1405
Beylik of Aydin
1405–1425
Ottoman Empire 1425–1919
Kingdom of Greece 1919–1922
Republic of Turkey
1922–present

Despite facing a plague in 1676, an earthquake in 1688, and a

great fire in 1743, the city continued to grow. By the end of the 17th century, the population was estimated at around ninety thousand, the Turks forming the majority (about 60,000); there were also 15,000 Greeks, 8,000 Armenians and 6,000 to 7,000 Jews, as well as a considerable section made up of French, English, Dutch and Italian merchants.[22] In the meantime, the Ottomans had allowed İzmir's inner bay dominated by the port castle to silt up progressively (the location of the present-day Kemeraltı bazaar
zone) and the port castle ceased to be of use.

In 1770, the Ottoman fleet was destroyed by Russian forces at the

Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922.[26]

The first railway lines to be built within the present-day territory of Turkey went from İzmir. A 130 km (81 mi) İzmir-Aydın railway was started in 1856 and finished in 1867, a year later than the Smyrna-Cassaba Railway, itself started in 1863.[27] In 1865 the population was estimated by the British (Hyde Clarke) at 180,000 with minorities of 80,000 Greeks, 8,000 Armenians and 10,000 Jews.[28]The wide arc of the Smyrna-Cassaba line advancing in a wide arc to the north-west from İzmir, through the Karşıyaka suburb, contributed greatly to the development of the northern shores as urban areas. These new developments, typical of the industrial age and the way the city attracted merchants and middlemen gradually changed the demographic structure of the city, its culture and its Ottoman character. In 1867, İzmir finally became the center of its own vilayet, still called by neighboring Aydın's name but with its own administrative area covering a large part of Turkey's present-day Aegean Region.

In the late 19th century, the port was threatened by a build-up of silt in the gulf and an initiative, unique in the history of the Ottoman Empire, was undertaken in 1886. In order to redirect the silt, the bed of the Gediz River was redirected to its present-day northern course, so that it no longer flowed into the gulf. The beginning of the 20th century saw İzmir take on the look of a global metropolis with a cosmopolitan city center. According to the 1893 Ottoman census, more than half of the population was Turkish, with 133,800 Greeks, 9,200 Armenians, 17,200 Jews, and 54,600 foreign nationals.[29] According to author Katherine Flemming, by 1919, Smyrna's 150,000 Greeks made up just under half of the population, outnumbering the Turks in the city two to one,[30] while the American Consul General, George Horton, records 165,000 Turks, 150,000 Greeks, 25,000 Jews, 25,000 Armenians, and 20,000 foreigners (Italians, French, British, Americans).[31] According to Henry Morgenthau and Trudy Ring, before World War I, the Greeks alone numbered 130,000, out of a total population of 250,000.[32][33] Moreover, according to various scholars, prior to the war, the city hosted more Greeks than Athens, the capital of Greece.[34][35] The Ottoman ruling class of that era referred to the city as Infidel Smyrna (Gavur İzmir) due to its strong Greek presence.[32][33]

Modern times

A mule
MaviBahçe
Hilltown Karşıyaka
Hilltown Karşıyaka
Shopping malls in the Mavişehir quarter of Karşıyaka

Following the defeat of the

Greeks of Anatolia
. By September 1922 the Greek army had been defeated and the last Greek soldiers left Smyrna on 8 September 1922.

İzmir Chamber of Commerce in Konak

The

great fire broke out in the city, lasting until 22 September. The fire completely destroyed the Greek and Armenian quarters, while the Muslim and Jewish quarters escaped damage.[36] Estimated Greek and Armenians deaths resulting from the fire range from 10,000[37][38] to 100,000[39][40] Approximately 50,000[41] to 400,000[42] Greek and Armenian refugees crammed the waterfront to escape from the fire and were forced to remain there under harsh conditions for nearly two weeks. The systematic evacuation of Greeks on the quay started on 24 September when the first Greek ships entered the harbor under the supervision of Allied destroyers.[43] Some 150,000 to 200,000 Greeks were evacuated in total.[38] The remaining Greeks were expelled to Greece in 1923, as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, a stipulation of the Treaty of Lausanne
, which formally ended the Greco-Turkish War.

Mistral Office Tower (left) and Folkart Towers (right) in the Bayraklı district, where the city's tallest skyscrapers are located

The war, and especially the events that took place in İzmir, such as the fire, probably the greatest disaster the city has ever experienced, continue to influence the psyches of the two nations to this day. The Turks have claimed that the Greek army landing was marked from the very first day by the "first bullet" fired on Greek detachments by the journalist

Turkish Republic
in 1923.

In 2020, the city was damaged by the Aegean Sea earthquake and tsunami, which was the deadliest seismic event of that year. 117 people died and 1,034 more were injured in Turkey, all but one of whom were from the city of İzmir.[45]

The city of İzmir is composed of several metropolitan districts. Of these, the district of Konak corresponds to historical İzmir, with this district's area having constituted the city's central "İzmir Municipality" (Turkish: İzmir Belediyesi) until 1984. With the formation of the "İzmir Metropolitan Municipality" (Turkish: İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi), the city of İzmir at first grouped together its eleven (initially nine) urban districts – namely Balçova, Bayraklı, Bornova, Buca, Çiğli, Gaziemir, Güzelbahçe, Karabağlar, Karşıyaka, Konak, and Narlıdere – and later consolidated them with an additional nine of the province's districts outside the city proper.[46][47] In 2013, the passing of Act 6360 established all thirty of İzmir Province's districts as part of İzmir's metropolitan area.[48]

Demographics

Population of İzmir
Year Population Year Population
1595 2,000[49] 1955 286,000
1640 35,000–40,000[49] 1960 371,000
1660 60,000–70,000[49] 1965 442,000
1890 200,000[49] 1970 554,000
1918 300,000[49] 1985 1,489,817
1927 154,000 1990 1,758,780
1935 171,000 2000 2,232,265
1940 184,000 2007 2,606,294
1945 200,000 2009 2,727,968
1950 231,000 2014 2,847,691

The period after the 1960s and the 1970s saw another blow to the fabric of İzmir, when local administrations tended to neglect İzmir's traditional values and landmarks. For many inhabitants, this was as serious as the

1922 fire. Some administrators were not always in tune with the central government in Ankara and regularly fell short of government subsidies, and the city absorbed huge waves of immigration from inland Anatolia, causing a population explosion. Today, it is not surprising that many inhabitants of İzmir (similar to residents of other prominent Turkish cities) look back with nostalgia to a cozier, more manageable city, which came to an end in the last few decades.[citation needed
]

The Floor Ownership Law of 1965 (Kat Mülkiyeti Kanunu), allowing and encouraging arrangements between house or land proprietors and building contractors by which each would share the benefits of renting out eight-floor apartment blocks built to replace former single-family houses, proved especially disastrous for the urban landscape.[citation needed]

Modern İzmir is growing in several directions at the same time. The north-western corridor extending to Aliağa brings together both mass housing projects, including villa-type projects and intensive industrial area, including an oil refinery. In the southern corridor towards Gaziemir yet another important growth trend is observed, contributed to by the Aegean Free Zone, light industry, the airport and mass housing projects. The presence of the Tahtalı Dam, built to provide drinking water, and its protected zone did not check urban spread here, which has offshoots in cooperatives outside the metropolitan area as far south as the Ayrancılar–Torbalı axis.[citation needed]

To the east and the north-east, urban development ends near the natural barriers constituted respectively by the Belkahve (

Ulucak, outside the metropolitan zone, see mass housing and secondary residences development.[citation needed
]

Başdurak Mosque (1652) is located in the Konak district.

More recently, the metropolitan area displays growth, especially along the western corridor, encouraged by the Çeşme motorway and extending to districts outside the city of İzmir proper, such as Seferihisar and Urla.[50] The population of the city is predominantly Muslim, but it was predominantly non-Muslim up to the earlier quarter of the 20th century.[51]

İzmir is also home to Turkey's second largest

Karataş. Smyrniot Jews like Sabbatai Zevi and Darío Moreno were among famous figures in the city's Jewish community. Others include the Pallache family with three grand rabbis: Haim, Abraham, and Nissim.[citation needed
]

St. John's Cathedral (1874) is dedicated to John the Evangelist, who wrote the Book of Revelation and sent the scrolls describing his visions to the Seven churches of Asia, including Smyrna (İzmir).

The

Catholic Levantines of İzmir, who are mostly of Genoese and to a lesser degree of French and Venetian descent,[53] live mainly in the districts of Bornova and Buca. One of the most prominent present-day figures of the community is Caroline Giraud Koç, wife of the renowned Turkish industrialist Mustafa Koç, whose company, Koç Holding, is one of the largest family-owned industrial conglomerates in the world.[citation needed
]

İzmir once had a large Greek and Armenian community, but after the great fire of 1922 and the end of the Greco-Turkish War, many of the Greeks remaining in the city fled, were killed or forced to leave under the terms of the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey.[citation needed]

Turkey is home to tens of thousands of black citizens descended from the African slave trade in the Ottoman Empire that can be traced back to the 14th century. Known as Afro-Turks, İzmir and the surrounding areas on the Aegean coast is a central hub for this population.[54]

Climate

İzmir has a

hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa, Trewartha climate classification
: Cs), which is characterized by prolonged, hot, dry summers, and mild to cool, rainy winters. İzmir's average yearly precipitation is quite ample, at 730.5 mm (28.76 in); however, the vast majority of the city's rainfall occurs from November through March, and there is usually very little rainfall from June to September, with frequent summer droughts. The city received its greatest daily rainfall, 145.3 mm (5.72 in), on September 29, 2006, while the highest wind speed of 127.1 km/h (79.0 mph) was recorded on March 29, 1970.

Maximum temperatures during the winter months are mostly between 10 and 16 °C (50 and 61 °F). Although it is rare, snow can fall in İzmir from December to February, which usually stays for a few hours rather than a whole day or more. The record 32 cm (13 in) of snow depth was recorded on January 31, 1945. Frost does occasionally occur at night almost every winter. During summer, the air temperature can climb as high as 40 °C (104 °F) from June to September; however, the high temperatures are usually between 30 and 36 °C (86 and 97 °F).

Etesian winds (Turkish: meltem, Greek: μελτέμι meltemi) of the Aegean Sea occur regularly in the Gulf and city of İzmir.

Climate data for İzmir (1991–2020, extremes 1938–2020)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 22.4
(72.3) 		27.0
(80.6) 		30.5
(86.9) 		32.5
(90.5) 		37.6
(99.7) 		41.3
(106.3) 		43.2
(109.8) 		43.0
(109.4) 		40.1
(104.2) 		36.0
(96.8) 		30.3
(86.5) 		25.2
(77.4) 		43.2
(109.8)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 12.7
(54.9) 		14.0
(57.2) 		17.2
(63.0) 		21.3
(70.3) 		26.5
(79.7) 		31.3
(88.3) 		33.8
(92.8) 		33.6
(92.5) 		29.5
(85.1) 		24.6
(76.3) 		18.8
(65.8) 		14.0
(57.2) 		23.1
(73.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) 9.0
(48.2) 		9.9
(49.8) 		12.4
(54.3) 		16.2
(61.2) 		21.1
(70.0) 		26.0
(78.8) 		28.6
(83.5) 		28.5
(83.3) 		24.2
(75.6) 		19.5
(67.1) 		14.4
(57.9) 		10.5
(50.9) 		18.4
(65.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 6.0
(42.8) 		6.6
(43.9) 		8.6
(47.5) 		11.8
(53.2) 		16.2
(61.2) 		20.9
(69.6) 		23.5
(74.3) 		23.7
(74.7) 		19.5
(67.1) 		15.4
(59.7) 		10.9
(51.6) 		7.7
(45.9) 		14.2
(57.6)
Record low °C (°F) −8.2
(17.2) 		−5.2
(22.6) 		−3.8
(25.2) 		0.6
(33.1) 		4.3
(39.7) 		9.5
(49.1) 		15.4
(59.7) 		11.5
(52.7) 		10.0
(50.0) 		3.6
(38.5) 		−2.9
(26.8) 		−4.7
(23.5) 		−8.2
(17.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 127.5
(5.02) 		107.2
(4.22) 		77.8
(3.06) 		50.1
(1.97) 		32.9
(1.30) 		14.4
(0.57) 		3.0
(0.12) 		6.7
(0.26) 		23.5
(0.93) 		56.5
(2.22) 		99.6
(3.92) 		131.3
(5.17) 		730.5
(28.76)
Average precipitation days 11.57 12.00 10.23 9.00 7.10 3.67 0.67 0.83 3.07 6.67 9.07 13.30 87.2
Average
relative humidity
(%) 		68.9 67.3 63.5 60.3 57.6 51.6 48.7 50.7 56.0 63.1 67.4 70.1 60.4
Mean monthly sunshine hours 139.5 146.9 204.6 237.0 300.7 345.0 381.3 359.6 291.0 235.6 174.0 130.2 2,945.4
Mean daily sunshine hours 4.5 5.2 6.6 7.9 9.7 11.5 12.3 11.6 9.7 7.6 5.8 4.2 8.0
Source 1: Turkish State Meteorological Service[55]
Source 2:
NOAA (humidity, 1991-2020)[56]

Main sights

The Clock Tower is the symbol of the city.

Standing on Mount

Hellenistic Age, along with those found in nearby Kemalpaşa and Mount Sipylus
.

Asansör (1907) offers panoramic views of the city.

The

St. Polycarp was martyred, buried under an urban zone on the slopes of Kadifekale
. It was distinguishable until the 19th century, as evident by the sketches done at the time. At top of the same hill stands an ancient castle, one of İzmir's landmarks.

Arkas Art Center in İzmir

One of the more pronounced elements of İzmir's harbor is the

Abdülhamid II to the Ottoman
throne in 1876. The tower features four fountains placed around the base in a circular pattern, and the columns are inspired by North African themes.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel in 1890, the Konak Pier has numerous shops, cafés and restaurants.

The

Pagos), the portuary Ok Kalesi (Neon Kastron, St. Peter), and Sancakkale, which remained vital to İzmir's security for centuries. Sancakkale is situated in the present-day İnciraltı quarter between the Balçova and Narlıdere districts, on the southern shore of the Gulf of İzmir. It is at a key point where the strait allows entry into the innermost tip of the Gulf at its narrowest, and due to shallow waters through a large part of this strait, ships have sailed close to the castle.[57]

There are nine

synagogues in İzmir, concentrated either in the traditional Jewish quarter of Karataş or in Havra Sokak (Synagogue street) in Kemeraltı
, and they all bear the signature of the 19th century when they were built or re-constructed in depth on the basis of former buildings.

The Atatürk, His Mother and Women's Rights Monument in the Karşıyaka district of İzmir

The

Atatürk Mask (Turkish: Atatürk Maskı) is a large concrete relief of the head of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, located to the south of Kadifekale
the historical castle of İzmir.

The İzmir Bird Paradise (İzmir Kuş Cenneti) in Çiğli, a bird sanctuary near Karşıyaka, has 205 recorded species of birds, including 63 species that are resident year-round, 54 species of summer migratory birds, 43 species of winter migratory birds, and 30 transient species. 56 species of birds have bred in the park. The sanctuary, which covers 80 square kilometres, was registered as "the protected area for water birds and for their breeding" by the Turkish Ministry of Forestry in 1982. A large open-air zoo was established in the same district of Çiğli in 2008 under the name Sasalı Park of Natural Life.

Culture

A view of Kültürpark in central İzmir

İzmir International Fair

Main article: İzmir International Fair

İzmir prides itself with its busy schedule of

trade fairs, exhibitions and congresses. The fair and the festival are held in the compound of İzmir's vast inner city park named Kültürpark
in the first days of September, and organized by İZFAŞ, a depending company of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality.

Festivals

Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center

The annual International İzmir Festival, which begins in mid-June and continues until mid-July, has been organized every year since 1987. During the festival, many world-class performers such as soloists and virtuosi, orchestras, dance companies, rock and jazz groups have given recitals and performances at various venues in the city and its surrounding areas; including the ancient theatres at Ephesus (near Selçuk) and Metropolis (an ancient Ionian city situated near the town of Torbalı.) The festival is a member of the European Festivals Association since 2003.

The İzmir European Jazz Festival is among the numerous events organized every year by the İKSEV (İzmir Foundation for Culture, Arts and Education) since 1994. The festival aims to bring together masters and lovers of jazz with the aim to generate feelings of love, friendship and peace.

The International İzmir Short Film Festival is organized since 1999 and is a member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals.

İzmir Metropolitan Municipality has built the

ARUP which is a noted company in this field.[58]

Music

In 2015 the Barış Youth Symphony Orchestra was founded, incorporating children with limited opportunities in low-income regions of the city, with the purpose to keep them away from crime on the street. The orchestra, grown up to nearly one hundred members, gives concerts accompanied by notable classic music artists.[59]

Cuisine

İzmir's cuisine has largely been affected by its multicultural history, hence the large variety of food originating from the

sucuk also added sometimes.[60]

Economy

Skyscrapers in the Bayraklı district of İzmir

The

port of İzmir is Turkey's main port for exports in terms of the freight handled and its free zone
is the leader among the twenty in Turkey.

Trade through the city's port had a determinant importance for the economy of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 19th century and the economic foundations of the early decades of Turkey's Republican era were also laid here during the İzmir Economic Congress.

At present, İzmir area's economy is divided in value between various types of activities, as follows: 30.5% for industry, 22.9% for trade and related services, 13.5% for transportation and communication and 7.8% for agriculture. In 2008, İzmir provided 10.5% of all tax revenues collected by Turkey and its exports corresponded to 6% and its imports to 4% of Turkey's foreign trade.

The province as a whole is Turkey's third largest exporter after Istanbul and Bursa, and the fifth largest importer. 85–90% of the region's exports and approximately one fifth of all Turkish exports are made through the

Port of Alsancak with an annual container loading capacity of close to a million.[61]

Sports

İzmir Atatürk Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 51,295, hosted the 1971 Mediterranean Games, the 2005 Summer Universiade and the 2011 European Team Championships, among other track and field events. It is also used by İzmir's football clubs.

Several important international sports events have been held in İzmir:

Gürsel Aksel Stadium, with a seating capacity of 20,040, is the home of Göztepe S.K. in Konak, İzmir.

The 51,295 capacity (all-seater) İzmir Atatürk Stadium regularly hosts, apart from Turkish Super League games of İzmir-based teams, many other Super League and Turkish Cup derby matches.

İzmir Alsancak Stadium
has a seating capacity of 15,358.

The three big

football clubs in İzmir are Altay (42 seasons in Süper Lig), Göztepe (30 seasons in Süper Lig), and Karşıyaka (16 seasons in Süper Lig). Other notable football clubs include: Altınordu, Menemen F.K., Bucaspor 1928, and İzmirspor. Bucaspor were relegated from the top tier, Turkish Super League, at the end of the 2010–11 season
.

UEFA Cup) in the 1968–69 season, and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in the 1969–70 season; becoming the first ever Turkish football club to play a semi-final game in Europe and the only one for two decades, until Galatasaray reached the semi-finals of the 1988–89 European Cup
.

Göztepe and

Apollon Smyrni F.C. which were founded in the city and moved to Athens
after 1922.

Karşıyaka's basketball department Karşıyaka Basket won the Turkish Basketball League twice (in the 1986–87 and 2014–15 seasons), the Turkish Cup once (in the 2013–14 season) and the Presidential Cup twice (in 1987 and 2014). The team plays its games at the Karşıyaka Arena. The 10,000 capacity (all-seater) Halkapınar Sports Hall is currently İzmir's largest indoor sports arena and was among the venues of the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey.

Arkas Spor is a successful volleyball club in the city, having won the Turkish Men's Volleyball League and the Turkish Cup several times, and the CEV Challenge Cup in the 2008–09 season. İzmir Atatürk Volleyball Hall regularly hosts the games of the city's volleyball teams.

The city boasts of several sports legends, past and present. Already at the dawn of its history, notable natives such as the son of its first port's founder

chariot race and Onomastus is one of history's first recorded sportspeople, having won the boxing contest in the Olympiad
of 688 BC.

Born in İzmir, and nicknamed Taçsız Kral (The Uncrowned King), 1960s football star

Palermo in Italy's Serie A, during the 1961–1962 season. Two other notable football figures from İzmir are Alpay Özalan and Mustafa Denizli, the first having played for Aston Villa F.C. between 2000 and 2003 and the second, after a long playing career as the captain of İzmir's Altay S.K., still pursues a successful career as a coach, being the only manager in Turkish Super League history to win a championship title with each of Istanbul's "Big Three" clubs (Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe S.K., and Beşiktaş J.K.) and having guided the Turkish national football team to the UEFA Euro 2000
Quarter-Finals.

İzmir Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) Sports Club's ice hockey team began playing in the Turkish Ice Hockey Super League during the 2011–2012 season

Politics

Members of Parliament from İzmir
General election, May 2023 • İzmir (1st), (2nd)
CHP
14 / 28
AKP
8 / 28
IYI
3 / 28
DEM
2 / 28
MHP
1 / 28
Cemil Tugay of the CHP is the current Mayor of İzmir, elected in 2024.

The current Mayor of the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality is Cemil Tugay from the Republican People's Party (CHP), in office since 2024. His predecessor Tunç Soyer(CHP) was first elected in 2019 but was not nominated by the CHP for a second term.[62]

İzmir has traditionally been a stronghold for the CHP, the centre-left Kemalist political party which forms the main opposition in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Being the third largest city in Turkey, İzmir is viewed as the CHP's most prized electoral stronghold, since the party has a more limited support base in both Istanbul and Ankara. Since the right-wing Justice and Development Party (AKP) gained power in 2002, the electorate of İzmir has been notable for voting strongly in favour of the CHP in every general and local election. In the 2007 and 2010 and 2017 referendums, the İzmir electorate strongly rejected the AKP government's constitutional reform proposals. Almost all of the city's districts have returned strong pluralities or majorities for the CHP in past elections, although the party lost ground in the 2014 local elections.

Due to the economic and historical importance of the city, İzmir has long been a strategic electoral target for the AKP, since beating the CHP in their most significant stronghold would be politically substantial. The majority of the citizens in İzmir have continued to vote for the centre-left political parties (in particular the CHP), despite large-scale pledges by the AKP promising investment and new infrastructure.

Anti-government protests in 2013 and 2014 against the AKP were particularly strong in İzmir.[65]

During the 2023 presidential election, 63.31% of the city's electorate voted for the CHP candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. In contrast, the AKP candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received 31.48% of the vote.[66]

During the 2024 local elections, despite the CHP's candidate for metropolitan mayor Cemil Tugay winning by a smaller margin, the CHP won the mayoralties in 28 of the 30 districts of İzmir.[67]


İzmir District Municipalities
Local elections, 2024
CHP
28 / 30
AKP
1 / 30
MHP
1 / 30

Media

İzmir has its own local media companies: there are 9 TV channels headquartered in İzmir and broadcasting in the Aegean Region, 26 local radio stations and 15 local newspapers. TRT Belgesel (TRT Documentary) is a Turkish national TV channel broadcasting from the TRT building in İzmir.[68][69][70][circular reference]

TV channels broadcasting

▪Ege TV |Local TV ▪Kanal 35 |Local TV ▪Sky TV | Local TV ▪Kordon TV | Local TV ▪FRM TV | Online TV ▪Ege Üniversitesi TV |Local TV ▪Ben TV | Online TV Ben TV - Ege ve İzmir Haberleri, Güncel Haberler▪Yenigün TV | Online TV ▪TRT Belgesel | National TV

Local radio stations

Circle of Life Memorial

▪Radyo İzmir ▪Romantik Radyo ▪Romantik Türk ▪Radyo 35 ▪Kordon FM ▪İmbat FM ▪Radyo Kordelya ▪Radyo Efe ▪Oynak FM ▪Duygusal FM ▪Sky Radyo ▪Radyo Pause ▪Radyo Ege ▪Ege FM ▪Ege'nin Sesi Radyosu ▪Herkül FM ▪Can Radyo ▪Batı Radyo ▪Radyo Gökkuşağı ▪Yıldız FM ▪Buca FM ▪Radyo Ege Kampüs 100.8 ▪Rock City FM ▪öRT FM ▪Y.Tire FM ▪DEÜ FM[71]

Newspapers and magazines

▪Ege Telgraf [2]▪Ekonomik Çözüm ▪Gözlem ▪Haber Ekspres ▪Ticaret ▪ Gazete Yenigün [3] ▪Yeni Asır ▪Yeni Ekonomi ▪Yenigün Gazetesi ▪9 Eylül Gazetesi [4] ▪Küçük Menderes Gazetesi ▪Büyük Tire ▪Ege Gazetesi[72] Tüm adresleri tek adreste[73]

İzmir in notable literary and artistic works

Health

İzmir City Hospital during its construction

Turkish identity card number.[77][78][79] One of the largest hospitals in the Aegean Region is currently under construction in the Bayraklı district of İzmir, with a reported cost of 780 million Euros.[80][81]

Education

There are a total of nine active universities in and near İzmir. The city is also home to well-rooted higher-education establishments that are renowned across Turkey, such as the İzmir Anatolian Vocational High School of Commerce (İzmir Anadolu Ticaret Lisesi) established in 1854, and the American Collegiate Institute (ACI) which was established in 1878.

Historically, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the city was an educational center of the Greek world, with a total of 67 male and 4 female schools. The most important Greek educational institution was the Evangelical School which operated from 1733 to 1922.[82]

İzmir is also home to the third

U.S. Space Camp in the world, Space Camp Turkey.[83]

Universities established in İzmir

Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Education in Buca, İzmir

Universities established near İzmir

Key Museum in İzmir has a collection of 130 automobiles and 40 motorcycles. It is the largest car museum in Turkey.

International schools in İzmir

  • Deutsche Schule Izmir (German school)[86]
  • Scuola Primaria e dell'Infanzia Italiana di Smirne (Italian school)[87][88]

Transport

See also: Transport in İzmir
Adnan Menderes International Airport is the main airport in İzmir.

İzmir is served by domestic and international flights through the

Adnan Menderes International Airport and by modern rapid transit systems serving the entirety of İzmir's metropolitan area. The city has attracted investors through its strategic location and its relatively new and highly developed technological infrastructure in transportation, telecommunications, and energy.[89][90]

Inter-city transport

Air

The

Adnan Menderes International Airport (ADB) is well served with connections to Turkish and international destinations. It is located in the Gaziemir
district of İzmir.

Bus

A large bus terminal, the Otogar in the Pınarbaşı neighborhood of the city, has intercity buses to destinations across Turkey. Bus companies' shuttle services pick up customers from each of their branch offices scattered across the city at regular intervals, often free of charge. To facilitate easier access, a Halkapınar—Otogar metro line has long been deliberated but construction has never begun – though throughout his campaign and upon his election as mayor of İzmir in 2019, Tunç Soyer has outlined it as one of his priorities.[91]

Rail

Ottoman Eyalet of Egypt
.

İzmir has two historical rail terminals in the city center.

Afyon and Bandırma (and from there to Istanbul via İDO
connection).

Basmane railway station (1866)

Inner-city transport

Coordinated public transportation was introduced to İzmir in 1999. A body known as UKOME gives strategic direction to the Metro, the ESHOT bus division, ferry operations, utilities and road developments. İzmir has an electronic, integrated pre-pay ticket known as the İzmirim Kart ('My İzmir' Card). The card is valid on all metro and commuter rail lines, buses, ferries, trams, and in certain other municipal facilities. The İzmirim Kart allows for the use of multiple forms of transport within a 120-minute window, combining for a single fare price.[92]

Bus

All of İzmir's major districts are serviced by a dense, comprehensive municipal bus network under the name ESHOT. The acronym stands for "E elektrik (electricity); S su (water); H havagazı (gas); O otobüs (bus) and T troleybüs (trolleybus)." Electricity, water and gas are now supplied by separate undertakings, and İzmir's trolleybus system ceased to operate in 1992. However, the bus operations, the O of the acronym ESHOT, has retained the original name. ESHOT operates 322 lines with about 1,500 buses and a staff of 2,700. It has five garages at Çakalburnu, Çiğli, Adatepe, Aktepe, and Mersinli. A privately owned company, İzulaş, operates 400 buses from two garages, running services under contract for ESHOT. These scheduled services are supplemented by the privately owned minibus or dolmuş services.[92]

Urban ferries

İzmir Municipality's urban ferry services in the Gulf of İzmir

Taken over by İzmir

Göztepe and Üçkuyular.) Special lines to points further out in the gulf are also put in service during summer, transporting excursion or holiday makers. These services are cheap and it is not unusual to see natives or visitors taking a ferry ride simply as a pastime.[92]

Metro

Main article: İzmir Metro
İzmir Metro has around 173,000 daily passengers.

İzmir has a metro network that is constantly being extended with new stations being put in service. The İzmir Metro network, currently consisting of one main line, starts from the Kaymakamlık station in Narlıdere in the western portion of the metropolitan area and runs northeast through the city to Bornova. The line is 27 km (16.8 mi) long.[92]

Regional rail

Main article: İZBAN
İZBAN commuter train

portmanteau
of the words "İzmir" and "Banliyö".

Established in 2006, İZBAN was formed to revive commuter rail in İzmir. İZBAN began operations in 2010 and currently operates a 136 km (85 mi) long system with 40 stations, consisting of two lines: the Southern Line and the Northern Line.[94]

İZBAN A.Ş. operates the railway and is owned 50% by the Turkish State Railways
and 50% by the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality.

Tram

Main article: Tram İzmir

İzmir's latest tram system is owned by the metropolitan municipality and operated by

İzmir Metro A.Ş. in three independent lines – one in Karşıyaka, opened in 2017, one in Konak, opened in 2018, and one in Çiğli, opened in 2024.[92]

A Karşıyaka Tram at Alaybey

Public transportation statistics

The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in İzmir, for example to and from work on a weekday is 62 minutes, and 13% of public transit riders ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 15 minutes, while 27% of riders wait for over 20 minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 10.4 km, while 22% travel for over 12 km in a single direction.[95]

Notable people

Main pages: Category:People from İzmir and Category:People from Smyrna

Twin towns and sister cities

The following is a list of İzmir's

sister cities:[96]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ UK: /ˈɪzmɪər/ IZ-meer, US: /ɪzˈmɪər/ iz-MEER; Turkish pronunciation: [ˈizmiɾ] ⓘ
  2. ^ a b Disputed territory between Cyprus and the self-declared state of Northern Cyprus.

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