Bağcılar
Bağcılar is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Bağcılar is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 23 km2, and its population is 740,069 (2022). It is located on the European side of Istanbul, near the city centre, just north of Bahçelievler, between the two major ring roads, TEM and D100. The district is the fourth most populous in the Istanbul Municipality. Bağcılar developed rapidly between the 1970s and 1990s and is primarily residential in nature. The neighborhood is served by the Istanbul Metro and the T1 line of the Istanbul Tram. The mayor is Yasin Yıldız from the Justice and Development Party, elected in January 2025.
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Getting to Bağcılar
- Airports
- İstanbul (IST), 29 km · Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 41 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 196 km
- Pendik, Istanbul → Bağcılar37 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · ₺90–120
- Eskişehir → Bağcılar199 km · quickest by road, 4h 42m · ₺530–710
- Edremit → Bağcılar224 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · ₺670–900
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bağcılar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bağcılar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe main dolmuş routes, which run virtually round the clock, are from Taksim to Bakırköy, Ataköy and Yeşilköy.
- Get inThere are several ferry routes connecting piers along the coast with central and eastern Istanbul.
From Wikivoyage: Istanbul/Western Suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Bağcılar
Bağcılar is 2 km from Esenler, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.