Turkey is building the largest airport in the world New, the third airport in Istanbul will be the largest in the world and will be able to serve 90 million passengers a year at the first stage, which is even more than the new airport in Beijing (86 million). The airport is being constructed near the intersection of roads from the provinces Arnavutköy, and Chataldja in the north of the European part of Istanbul at Lake Terkos. The construction site covers an area of ​​7,659 hectares, about 6.172 hectares of which are forests of state ownership. The distance between the new airport under construction and Ataturk Airport is about 35 kilometers in a straight line.