Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

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Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (IATA: SAW, ICAO: LTFJ) is the secondary international airport serving Istanbul, Turkey. Located 32 km (20 mi) southeast of the city centre, Sabiha Gökçen Airport is in the Asian part of the transcontinental city and serves as the operating base for AJet and Pegasus Airlines. The airport is named after Sabiha Gökçen, adoptive daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the first female fighter pilot in the world. The airport's name has roused controversy because of Sabiha Gökçen's involvement in the Dersim massacre. Although Istanbul Airport, located 63 km (39 mi) west of the European side of Istanbul, is larger, it handled over 48.4 million passengers in 2025, making it the second-busiest airport in Turkey, and forty sixth-busiest airport in the world.

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