The new airport, located some 20 miles outside Istanbul on the coast of the Black Sea, will cover 76.5 million square meters (29.5 miles) upon completion -- a footprint larger than Manhattan. Erdogan ended years of speculation about the name of the new airport, saying that it’ll be named “Istanbul Airport." The current main international airport, Ataturk, will continue limited operations under that name, he said. Istanbul has another airport on its Asian coast, called Sabiha Gokcen, one of 40 new airports built during Erdogan’s time in office.
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