PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences ISSN 2454-5899 © 2018 The author and GRDS Publishing. All rights reserved. 1252 Available Online at: http://grdspublishing.org/ Kahraman & Alkan, 2018 Volume 3 Issue 3, pp.1252-1261 Date of Publication: 1 st February, 2018 DOI-https://dx.doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2018.33.12521261 This paper can be cited as: Kahraman, C & Alkan, G. (2018). Istanbul’s Third Airport In Terms Of Transportation Geography: Geopolitics, Regional and Economic Effects. People: International Journal of Social Sciences, 3(3), 1252 -1261. ISTANBUL’S THIRD AIRPORT IN TERMS OF TRANSPORTATION GEOGRAPHY: GEOPOLITICS, REGIONAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS Cengiz KAHRAMAN Department of Marine Transportation and Management Engineering, Istanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey cengiz.kahraman@istanbul.edu.tr Güler ALKAN Rector of Yalova Universty, Yalova, Turkey gbalkan@istanbul.edu.tr Abstract More passengers have come to use airplanes in parallel with the developing aircraft technology. The remarkable and rapid development of commercial airlines after the World War II positively affected the costs to turn airborne transportation into a global activity taken up by masses. Doubtlessly, immense is the effect of developing airborne transportation on the emergence and dissemination of “globalization” herein. As one of the major components of airborne transportation, airports serve as spaces allowing for direct and connecting flights in a short time and make considerable contributions to the economy of the country they are located in. A region’s airborne accessibility enables the transportation of any goods and services to that particular region in a short while. Thus, accessibility is indispensable to the growth of a region’s economy. Taking the abovementioned as a premise, some airports have acquired new functions not only to regulate ordinary flight services and airborne transportation but also to turn into hubs to orchestrate interregional transportation. Such airports also function as tourism embassies. Among the hubs are the airports in Dubai, Bangkok, Frankfurt, London, Paris, and New York. In recent years, Istanbul has set out to be listed among the above hubs thanks to its geographical location and developing economy. Istanbul’s Third Airport, which has reached almost 70% of its construction and will come into service soon, has been designed to be the