Born a Sephardic Jew in Milas, Turkey, Amateau attended the American International College in İzmir ( Smyrna ), Turkey.

Kültürpark, the distinct location of the İzmir International Fair, is also englobed by the area of the quarter of Alsancak in both administrative and practical terms.

* İzmir International Fair

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

* İzmir Port Area Urban Design International Ideas Competition: The aim of this competition was to encourage new ideas for the development of urban areas and the architectural character of the İzmir port area, and, following this competition, construct a new city centre in the port area of an international repute.

is an airline based in Florya, Bakırköy district, Istanbul, Turkey, operating domestic and international scheduled passenger services and regular charter flights to Europe, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates, usually out of either Atatürk International Airport ; Istanbul, Ercan Airport ; Northern Cyprus, Adnan Menderes Airport ; İzmir, or Antalya Airport ; Antalya.

İzmir Adnan Menderes International Airport is an airport serving İzmir and is named after former Turkish prime minister Adnan Menderes.

* At the 1st İzmir International Fair Film Festival of 1965, he won the award for Best Directing for the film Suçlular Aramızda ( The guilty is among us ).

A number of ancient cities were located here, such as Troy, Assos, Pergamon ( Bergama ), Sardis, Ephesus, Miletus, Halicarnassus ( Bodrum ), Smyrna ( İzmir ), Hierapolis ( Pamukkale ), Magnesia ( Manisa ), Philadelphia ( Alaşehir ), Didyma ( Didim ), Aphrodisias, Kaunos, Knidos, among others.

Irenaeus was born during the first half of the 2nd century ( the exact date is disputed: between the years 115 and 125 according to some, or 130 and 142 according to others ), Irenaeus is thought to have been a Greek from Polycarp's hometown of Smyrna in Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey.

Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir ( ancient Smyrna ), where the Lake Karagöl ( Lake Tantalus ) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos " tomb of Tantalus " ( later Christianized as " Saint Charalambos ' tomb ") and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a " throne of Pelops ", an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.

* HIH Princess Fatma Ulviye Sultan ( Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, 11 September 1892 – İzmir, 25 January 1967 and buried at Çengelköy, Üsküdar, Istanbul, first married to HE Damat Ismail Hakki Okday Beyefendi ( Athens, 28 October 1881-Istanbul, 11 October 1977 ) at the Kurucheshme Palace, Constantinople, on 10 August 1916, without issue ; second marriage to HE Damat Ali Haidar Beyefendi ( Göztepe, Istanbul, 20 September 1889 – Istanbul, 5 February 1962 ) at the Nişantaşı Palace, Nişantaşı, Pera ( today Beyoğlu ), on 1 November 1923, also without issue.

By the time of Herodotus ( c. 475 BC ), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2, 857 km from the city of Susa on the Karun ( 250 km east of the Tigris ) to the port of Smyrna ( modern İzmir in Turkey ) on the Aegean Sea.

Klazomenai ( also spelled Clazomenae, Greek: Κλαζομεναί, modern-day Kilizman in Urla near İzmir in Turkey ) was an ancient Greek city of Ionia and a member of the Ionian Dodecapolis ( Confederation of Twelve Cities ), it was one of the first cities to issue silver coinage.

Both his parents were natives of Smyrna ( modern-day İzmir ), and he was greatly affected by his Greek ancestry.

Levantines were mostly of Italian ( especially Venetian and Genoese ), French, or other Euro-Mediterranean origin and have been living in Constantinople / Istanbul, İzmir / Smirne and other parts of Anatolia ( in present-day Turkey ) and the eastern Mediterranean coast, the so called Levant, since the middle Byzantine age or the Ottoman age.

Levantines continue to live in Istanbul ( mostly in the districts of Galata, Beyoğlu and Nişantaşı ), İzmir ( mostly in the districts of Karşıyaka, Bornova and Buca ), and the lesser port city Mersin where they had been influential for creating and reviving a tradition of opera.

Greece occupied Smyrna / İzmir on 15 May 1919, while Mustafa Kemal Pasha ( later Atatürk ), who was to become the leader of the Turkish opposition to the Treaty of Sèvres, landed in Samsun on May 19, 1919, an action that is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence.

Economic activity declined to a great extent ( mainly because trade flowed towards cities like Thessaloniki, İzmir, and Constantinople ), and the population declined, at least in the lowland areas ( Ottoman censuses did not include many people in mountainous areas ).

İzmir has had three castles historically – Kadifekale ( Pagos ), the portuary Ok Kalesi ( Neon Kastron, St. Peter ), and Sancakkale, which remained vital to İzmir's security for centuries.

Some of the common dishes found here are the tarhana soup ( made from dried yoghurt and tomatoes ), İzmir köfte, keşkek ( boiled wheat with meat ), zerde ( sweetened rice with saffron ) and mücver ( made from zucchini and eggs ).

Born in İzmir, and nicknamed Taçsız Kral ( The Uncrowned King ), 1960s football star Metin Oktay is a legend in Turkey.

She is coached by Cumhur Yavaş and is a member of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Sport Club.

This is a natural crossroads, the routes from Ankara to İzmir and from Istanbul to Antalya intersect here and Afyon is a popular stopping-place on these journeys.

Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning about the expulsion of Jews from Spain, dispatches the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki ( currently in Greece ) and İzmir ( currently in Turkey ).

A picture of the Izmir Ethnography Museum ( İzmir Etnografya Müzesi ) from the courtyard. Ethnography museum

* Altay S. K., a football club from İzmir, Turkey

* There are many privately-run bus connections to İzmir, Antalya, Ankara, Istanbul and other major cities in Turkey from Muğla and directly from the coastal resorts.

Suma Raki, i. e. distilled Raki prior to the addition of Aniseed, is generally produced from raisins but Raki factories around established wine-producing areas like Tekirdağ, Nevşehir, and İzmir may also use fresh grapes for higher quality.

Greece entered the First World War in 1917 with the intention of seizing Constantinople ( Istanbul ) and Smyrna ( İzmir ) from the Ottomans, with the encouragement of Britain and France, who also promised the Greeks Cyprus at a certain stage.

In 2001, about 800 illegal immigrants were rescued by the Greek coast guard after a fire broke out on board the Turkish-flagged Brelner, believed to have set sail from the Turkish port of İzmir, probably en route to Italy.

As a notional zone, Alsancak extends from along the tip of the southern shores of the Gulf of İzmir, starting near İzmir's historic square that carries the same name as the district ( Konak Square ) with the 19th century-built Pasaport Quai marking the point, and extending along a 3200-meter-long seaside street and promenade called " Kordon " ( esplanade, or more specifically as Birinci Kordon, ) and to join the neighboring metropolitan district of Bornova, located eastwards and at the very end of the Gulf's waters.

Atatürk Museum, whose building is a survivor of the transformation in recent decades of coastline residences from terraced double-storey houses to apartment blocks, also offers visitors a chance to have a glimpse of how the lives of the wealhty in 19th century İzmir was like.

The newest and the most attended synagogue of İzmir, " Shar Hashamayim " is also in Alsancak where increasing numbers of the city's remaining Jews opt to live, moving in from their traditional nighborhood of Karataş.

File: Bostanli. jpg | Gulf of İzmir as seen from Bostanlı, Karşıyaka

The 50, 000 capacity İzmir Atatürk Stadium regularly hosts, apart from Turkish Super League games of İzmir-based teams, many other Super League and Turkish Cup derby matches.

Two other notable football figures from İzmir are Alpay Özalan and Mustafa Denizli, the first having played for Aston Villa F. C.

Tire center is situated at a distance of to the north from the point of departure of the traditional center of İzmir ( Konak Square in Konak, İzmir ) and lies at a distance of inland from the nearest seacoast at the town of Dikili to its west.

The bays and gulfs of the Aegean beginning at the South and moving clockwise include on Crete, the Mirabelli, Almyros, Souda and Chania bays or gulfs, on the mainland the Myrtoan Sea to the west, the Saronic Gulf northwestward, the Petalies Gulf which connects with the South Euboic Sea, the Pagasetic Gulf which connects with the North Euboic Sea, the Thermian Gulf northwestward, the Chalkidiki Peninsula including the Cassandra and the Singitic Gulfs, northward the Strymonian Gulf and the Gulf of Kavala and the rest are in Turkey ; Saros Gulf, Edremit Gulf, Dikili Gulf, Çandarlı Gulf, İzmir Gulf, Kuşadası Gulf, Gulf of Gökova, Güllük Gulf.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

İZBAN operates commuter rail service in İzmir, Turkey.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and a major manufacturing center ; as well as its second largest port after Istanbul.

As of 2009, there were 102 airports ( 90 with paved runways and 12 with unpaved runways ) in Turkey, including the eight international airports in Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Trabzon, Dalaman, Milas-Bodrum and Antalya.

Karagöl (" The black lake ") in Mount Yamanlar, İzmir, Turkey, associated with the accounts surrounding Tantalus and named after him as " Lake Tantalus ".

Ionia ( Ancient Greek Ἰωνία or Ἰωνίη ) is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna.

On 10 August 1920, Mehmed's representatives signed the Treaty of Sèvres, which recognized the mandates, removed Ottoman control over Anatolia and İzmir, severely reduced the extent of Turkey, and recognized Hejaz as an independent state.

* İzmir, Turkey

Kayahan was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1949.

Issigonis was born into the Greek community of Smyrna ( now İzmir, Turkey ) in the Ottoman Empire.

** İzmir Institute of Technology, known primarily as " IYTE ", in İzmir, Turkey

Bektashis continue to be active in Turkey and their semi-clandestine organizations can be found in Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir.

In the 2003-04 UEFA Cup they lost 6-0 on aggregate to Maccabi Haifa of Israel, playing the away leg in İzmir, Turkey.

* Ege University, a university based in İzmir, Turkey