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Istanbul Governor's Office Announces Roads to Be Closed to Traffic in Istanbul for May 1 and Alternative Routes

According to a statement from the Istanbul Governor's Office, as part of the May 1 Labor and Solidarity Day events, the roads to be closed and the alternative routes in Beyoğlu from 05:00 on Thursday, May 1, 2025 until the end of the events are as follows:

ROADS TO BE CLOSED IN FATİH DISTRICT (05:00 - …)

  1. Ragıp Gümüşpala Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  2. Kadir Has Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  3. Abdülezelpaşa Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  4. Reşadiye Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  5. Unkapanı Bridge
  6. Galata Bridge
  7. Atatürk Boulevard and all roads leading onto it
  8. Gazi Mustafa Kemal Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  9. Sahil Kennedy Avenue (between the Sirkeci Square and Çatladıkapı traffic lights) and all roads leading onto it
  10. Ankara Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  11. Vezneciler Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  12. Fuat Paşa Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  13. 15 Temmuz Şehitleri Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  14. Dede Efendi Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  15. Macar Kardeşler Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  16. Fevzipaşa Avenue (between the Kıztaşı traffic lights and the Akdeniz Avenue junction) and all roads leading onto it
  17. 16 Mart Şehitleri Avenue and all roads leading onto it
  18. Şehzadebaşı Avenue and all roads leading onto it

FATİH DISTRICT ALTERNATIVE ROUTES

  1. Sahil Kennedy Avenue
  2. Haliç Bridge
  3. D-100
  4. Eurasia Tunnel
  5. Namık Kemal Avenue
  6. 10. Yıl Avenue
  7. Vatan Avenue

ROADS TO BE CLOSED IN BEYOĞLU DISTRICT (05:00 - …)

  1. Tarlabaşı Boulevard, Refik Saydam Avenue toward Şişli and the Unkapanı Bridge will be closed to traffic. (Between the Şişhane traffic-light closure point and the Taksim Divan junction closure point)
  2. Turabi Baba Avenue and Evliya Çelebi Avenue toward Tarlabaşı Boulevard will be closed to traffic. (Between Kasımpaşa Square and Refik Saydam Avenue)
  3. Kasımpaşa Bahriye Avenue toward Piyalepaşa Boulevard will be closed to traffic. (Between the Turabi Baba Avenue junction and the İplikçi variant)
  4. Halıcıoğlu Okmeydanı Avenue will be closed to traffic at the Tokaç Street junction, and no flow will be permitted toward Darülaceze Avenue.
  5. Aslan Gazi Avenue, at the junction of Alakoç Street and Aylin Street, will be closed toward Darülaceze Avenue
  6. Piyalepaşa Boulevard toward Fişekhane Deresi and Irmak Avenue, Dolapdere direction, will be closed to traffic. (Between the front of the BP petrol station on Piyalepaşa Boulevard and the Dolapdere junction)
  7. Ömer Hayyam Avenue toward Tarlabaşı Boulevard will be closed to traffic. (Between the Kurtuluş Avenue junction and Tarlabaşı Boulevard)
  8. Turabi Baba Avenue and Evliya Çelebi Avenue toward Tarlabaşı Boulevard will be closed to traffic. (Between Kasımpaşa Square and Refik Saydam Avenue)
  9. Sazlı Dere and Yedikuyular Avenue toward the Divan junction will be closed to traffic. (Between the Dolapdere junction and the Divan junction)
  10. Mete Avenue toward Taksim AKM will be closed to traffic. (Between the Askerocağı Avenue junction traffic-light closure point and the junction in front of the AKM)
  11. Bedri Karafakihoğlu Street toward Şehitler Tepesi will be closed to traffic. (Between the Mete junction closure point and Şehitler Tepesi)
  12. İnönü Avenue toward Taksim AKM and Dolmabahçe Gazhane Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between the junction in front of the AKM and the Şehitler Tepesi traffic-light closure point)
  13. Tak-ı Zafer Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between the AKM junction and the Kazancı Yokuşu closure point)
  14. Sıraselviler Avenue toward Taksim Square and Cihangir will be closed to traffic. (Between the Kazancı Yokuşu closure point and the closure point at the head of Akarsu Yokuşu)
  15. İstiklal Avenue and all roads connecting to İstiklal Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between Taksim Square and the İlk Belediye Avenue closure point)
  16. Meşrutiyet Avenue toward İlk Belediye Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between the Tepebaşı traffic-light junction and Beyoğlu Municipality)
  17. İlk Belediye Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between the closure point in front of Beyoğlu Municipality on Meşrutiyet Avenue and İstiklal Avenue at Tünel Square)
  18. Perşembe Pazarı Tersane Avenue toward Karaköy Square and the Unkapanı Bridge will be closed to traffic. (As of Karaköy Square)
  19. Karaköy Kemraltı Avenue toward the Galata Bridge and Eminönü will be closed to traffic. (As of Karaköy Square)
  20. Kemeraltı Avenue toward Dolmabahçe and Karaköy Square will be closed to traffic. (Between the Karaköy Square closure point and the Boğazkesen Avenue closure point)
  21. Necati Bey Avenue toward Dolmabahçe will be closed to traffic. (Between Karaköy Square and the Tophane traffic lights)
  22. Boğazkesen Avenue toward İstiklal Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between the Defterdar Yokuşu entrance closure point and the Yeni Çarşı Avenue entrance closure point)
  23. Defterdar Yokuşu Avenue toward Cihangir will be closed to traffic. (Between the Boğazkesen Avenue junction and Sıraselviler Avenue)
  24. Meclisi Mebusan Avenue toward Dolmabahçe and Karaköy will be closed to traffic. (Between the Kadırgalar Avenue closure point and the Tophane traffic-light closure point)
  25. Mebusan Yokuşu Avenue, Akyol Street, will be closed to traffic. (Between the Bolahenk Street junction in front of the Akyol taxi stand and Cihangir Avenue)

BEYOĞLU DISTRICT ALTERNATIVE ROUTES

  1. Donanma Avenue
  2. Fişekhane Deresi Avenue
  3. Dereboyu Avenue
  4. Bülent Demir Avenue
  5. Irmak Avenue
  6. Kurtuluş Deresi Avenue
  7. Piyalepaşa Boulevard
  8. Kasımpaşa Zincirlikuyu Avenue
  9. Fatih Sultan Avenue
  10. Fatih Sultan Mimberi Avenue
  11. Alt Baruthane Avenue
  12. Üst Baruthane Avenue
  13. Kulaksız Avenue
  14. Okmeydanı Avenue
  15. Hasköy Avenue
  16. Kumbarhane Avenue
  17. İmrahor Avenue
  18. Asker Ocağı Avenue

ROADS TO BE CLOSED IN ŞİŞLİ DISTRICT (05:00 - …)

  1. Cumhuriyet Avenue toward Şişli and Taksim Square will be closed to traffic. (Between the junction in front of the Divan Hotel and the closure point in front of the Harbiye Military Museum)
  2. Halaskargazi Avenue toward Şişli and Taksim Square will be closed to traffic. (Between the traffic lights in front of the Harbiye Military Museum and the 19 Mayıs Avenue junction)
  3. Rumeli Avenue toward Halaskargazi Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between the Nişantaşı junction and the Osman Bey junction)
  4. Abide-i Hürriyet Avenue, the Çağlayan underpass, will be closed to traffic as of the traffic lights in front of the Çağlayan Courthouse.
  5. Büyükdere Avenue toward Taksim Square and Şişli will be closed to traffic. (Between the 19 Mayıs Avenue junction and Mecidiyeköy Square)
  6. Büyükdere Avenue will be closed to vehicle traffic between below the Esentepe variant and Mecidiyeköy.
  7. Merkez Avenue, Geçit Street, toward Abide-i Hürriyet Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between under the Kuştepe Bridge and Abidei Hürriyet Avenue) 8. Darülaceze Avenue will be closed to vehicle traffic.
  8. Abide-i Hürriyet Avenue toward Feriköy will be closed to traffic. (Between the Hürriyet Tepe traffic lights and Ergenekon Avenue)
  9. İzzetpaşa Avenue toward Halaskargazi Avenue will be closed to traffic. (Between the Abide-i Hürriyet Avenue junction and Halaskargazi Avenue)
  10. Ergenekon Avenue toward Pangaltı will be closed to traffic. (Between the Kurtuluş Avenue junction and Halaskargazi Avenue)
  11. Dolapdere Avenue toward below Pangaltı will be closed to traffic. (Between the Poyraz Street junction and Ergenekon Avenue)
  12. Mahmut Ağa Yokuşu toward Kurtuluş will be closed to traffic. (Between the Piyalepaşa Boulevard junction and Yay Meydanı Street)
  13. Sıracevizler Avenue toward the Dolmabahçe Tunnel will be closed to traffic. (As of the Kağıthane tunnel turn below the variant)
  14. Akar Avenue toward the Dolmabahçe Tunnel will be closed to traffic. (As of the Dolmabahçe–Taksim turn below the variant)
  15. Darülaceze Yolu Avenue toward Feriköy will be closed to traffic. (At the Akar Avenue junction

onward)

  1. İncirli Dede Avenue toward Feriköy will be closed to traffic. (At the Akar Avenue junction

onward)

  1. The Dolmabahçe Tunnel toward Dolmabahçe Square will be closed to traffic. (As of the Akar Avenue tunnel entrance)
  2. Duçi Street and Huzur Street toward Sıracevizler Avenue will be closed to traffic. (As of the Bomonti junction entrances)
  3. Esen Street and Hasat Street toward Şişli Mosque will be closed to traffic. (As of the Çiftecevizler Avenue entrances)
  4. Darülaceze Avenue toward Abidei Hürriyet Avenue will be closed to traffic. (As of the junction in front of Şişli Municipality)
  5. Piyalepaşa Boulevard, the Çağlayan approach, toward Uzay Otomotiv will be closed to traffic. (As of the Odese Boulevard fork behind the Tunnel Operations Directorate)
  6. Odese Boulevard toward Piyale Paşa and Uzay Otomotiv will be closed to traffic. (As of in front of the Muradiye Mosque on Fevzi Çakmak Avenue)
  7. İmrahor Avenue toward the Kağıthane Tunnel and Bomonti will be closed to traffic. (As of the İmrahor, Kağıthane, and Sütlüce entrances)

ŞİŞLİ DISTRICT ALTERNATIVE ROUTES

  1. Büyükdere Avenue between Mecidiyeköy Square and Zincirlikuyu
  2. Mecidiyeköy Yolu Avenue
  3. Ortaklar Avenue
  4. Bahçeler Street
  5. Bülent Tarcan Avenue
  6. Hakkı Yeten Avenue
  7. Vali Konağı Avenue
  8. Aytekin Kotil Avenue
  9. 19 Mayıs Avenue
  10. Kadırgalar Avenue between Bayıldım Avenue and the Adil Baba junction
  11. Maçka Avenue
  12. Teşvikiye Avenue
  13. Abdi İpekçi Avenue
  14. Mim Kemal Öke Avenue
  15. Taşkışla Avenue
  16. Kurtuluş Avenue
  17. Bozkurt Avenue
  18. Silahşör Avenue
  19. Avukat Avenue
  20. Çiftecevizler Avenue
  21. Darülaceze Avenue

ROADS TO BE CLOSED IN BEŞİKTAŞ DISTRICT (05:00 - …)

  1. Barbaros Boulevard toward Beşiktaş Square will be closed to traffic. (Between the Balmumcu junction and the entrance to the Zincirlikuyu Balmumcu underpass and the Central Command traffic lights)
  2. Barbaros Boulevard toward Beşiktaş Square will be closed to traffic. (Between the Central Command traffic lights and Beşiktaş Square)
  3. The Sait Çiftçi Yıldız junction avenue at its merge with Barbaros Boulevard will be closed to traffic. (As of the D-100 south merge with Barbaros Boulevard)
  4. Barbaros Boulevard, Saray Avenue, Yıldız Avenue, and Eski Yıldız Avenue, the turn toward Beşiktaş Square, will be closed to traffic. (As of the Yıldız, Serencebey, and Eski Ortaköy turn traffic lights)
  5. Çiğdem Street and Barbaros Hayrettin İskelesi Street will be closed to traffic. (As of the Çırağan Avenue junction)
  6. Beşiktaş Avenue toward Dolmabahçe will be closed to traffic. (Between Beşiktaş Square and the traffic lights at the head of Süleyman Seba Avenue)
  7. Dolmabahçe Avenue toward Karaköy will be closed to traffic. (Between the head of Süleyman Seba Avenue and the Kadırgalar lower-end traffic lights)
  8. Vişneli Tekke Street toward Dolmabahçe will be closed to traffic. (As of the Prof. Alaeddin Yavaşça Street junction)
  9. Dolmabahçe Gazhane Avenue toward Karaköy will be closed to traffic. (At the Asker Ocağı Avenue

junction, between the closure point in front of Süzer Plaza and Dolmabahçe Square)

BEŞİKTAŞ DISTRICT ALTERNATIVE ROUTES

  1. Barbaros Boulevard outbound direction
  2. Çırağan Avenue
  3. Ortabahçe Avenue
  4. Süleyman Seba Avenue
  5. Kadırgalar Avenue between the Dolmabahçe traffic lights and Bayıldım Avenue
  6. Bayıldım Avenue
  7. Şair Nedim Avenue
  8. Nüshetiye Avenue
  9. Ihlamur Yıldız Avenue
  10. Emirhan Avenue
  11. Ayazma Dere Avenue
  12. Yıldız Avenue
  13. Palangalar Avenue
  14. Balmumcu Şakir Kesebir Street
  15. Büyükdere Avenue toward Sarıyer

D-100 ROADS TO BE CLOSED (05:00-)

  1. D-100 North Mecidiyeköy fork
  2. D-100 North Kasımpaşa–Taksim forks
  3. D-100 North Okmeydanı side road, Kasımpaşa–Taksim forks
  4. D-100 North Beşiktaş forks
  5. Hasdal–Okmeydanı connector road, below the Okmeydanı Bridge
  6. D-100 South Okmeydanı–Piyalepaşa fork
  7. D-100 South Çağlayan side road, Mecidiyeköy fork
  8. D-100 South Beşiktaş–Balmumcu fork
  9. D-100 South Çağlayan side road, Çağlayan forks

D-100 ALTERNATIVE ROADS

  1. The flow from D-100 North toward Mecidiyeköy will be closed and redirected toward Haliç North)
  2. The flow from the North Çağlayan side road toward Kasımpaşa–Taksim will be closed and the flow redirected toward Haliç)
  3. The flow from the North Okmeydanı side road toward Taksim will be closed and the flow redirected toward Haliç)
  4. The flow coming from the direction of the TEM toward Piyalepaşa will be completely closed and the flow directed toward Haliç)
  5. The flow from the South Haliç direction toward Piyale Paşa will be completely closed and the flow directed toward D-100 South)
  6. The flow from the South Çağlayan side road toward Mecidiyeköy will be redirected toward D-100 South)
  7. The flow from the D-100 South direction toward Beşiktaş–Balmumcu will be redirected toward Levent–Sarıyer)

ROADS TO BE CLOSED IN KADIKÖY DISTRICT (05:00 - …)

  1. Tıbbiye Avenue and all roads leading onto it, between the junction of Kavak İskele Avenue and Tıbbiye Avenue and the junction of Rıhtım Avenue and Tıbbiye Avenue
  2. Rıhtım Avenue and all roads leading onto it, between the junction of Tıbbiye Avenue and Rıhtım Avenue and Rıhtım Street and Rıhtım Avenue
  3. Albay Faik Sözdener Avenue and all roads leading onto it, between the junction of Rıhtım Street and Albay Faik Sözdener Avenue and the junction of Söğütlüçeşme Avenue and Albay Faik Sözdener Avenue
  4. Kurbağalıdere Avenue and all roads leading onto it, between the junction of Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Avenue and Kurbağalıdere Avenue and the junction of Söğütlüçeşme Avenue and Kurbağalıdere Avenue
  5. Söğütlüçeşme Avenue and all roads leading onto it, between the junction of Söğütlüçeşme Avenue and Kurbağalıdere Avenue and the junction of Rıhtım Avenue and Söğütlüçeşme

Avenue

KADIKÖY DISTRICT ALTERNATIVE ROADS

  1. Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Avenue (minibus road)
  2. Kurbağalıdere Avenue (Hasanpaşa direction)
  3. Dr. Esat Işık Avenue
  4. Acıbadem Avenue
  5. Recep Peker Avenue
  6. Bağdat Avenue
  7. D-100 Highway
  8. Taşköprü Avenue
  9. Dr. Eyüp Aksoy Avenue

ROADS TO BE CLOSED IN KARTAL DISTRICT (05:00-)

  1. The junction of Turgut Özal Boulevard and Yunus Avenue
  2. Between Turgut Özal Boulevard, Çanakkale Avenue, and Pendik District, Ankara Avenue (Erol Kaya

     Avenue) will be closed to traffic in both directions

  1. Between the junction of Sanayi Avenue and Ulunay Avenue and the merge with Turgut Özal Boulevard
  2. The junction of İhlas Street and Turgut Özal Boulevard
  3. The junction of Şehzade Avenue and Turgut Özal Boulevard
  4. Egemenlik Boulevard, the Kartal Baba underpass
  5. The entirety of Savarona Avenue
  6. Between the junction of Neyzen Tevfik Avenue and Şehit Tamer Kılıç Street and Savarona Avenue

KARTAL DISTRICT ALTERNATIVE ROADS

  1. Traffic will be directed from the south side of Turgut Özal Boulevard toward Çanakkale Avenue
  2. Traffic will be directed from the north side of Turgut Özal Boulevard toward Ankara Avenue and Erol Kaya Avenue.
  3. Ankara Avenue, Üsküdar Avenue, and Erol Kaya Avenue will be used
  4. From Sanayi Avenue, traffic will be directed toward Ulunay Avenue and Namık Kemal Avenue
  5. D-100 North and South roads

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