Aviation in Turkey has a long and distinguished history. Istanbul Atatiirk airport (IST), for example, was built in 1912, on the site of an Ottoman Empire military runway located in the suburb of Yesilkoy, around 20 km west of the Golden Horn, an inlet in the Bosphorus. In 1985 it was named after the first president of the republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938). Istanbul’s second airport was named after Sabiha Gökçen (1913-2001), Atatiirk’s adopted daughter and the first woman pilot in Turkey, in her own lifetime. The gateway, which has had the lata destination code SAW since 2001, is located on the Asian side of Istanbul.
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