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Beylikdüzü removals

Moving in Beylikdüzü has two distinct sides: arranging a time with site management from the entrance to the goods lift in Adnan Kahveci and Barış, and finding level ground for the lorry on the steep streets down to the sea in Gürpınar and Sahil. Our lorry sets out from Sancaktepe and crosses the Bosphorus via Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge.

We handle removals in Beylikdüzü, at İstanbul's western edge between the Sea of Marmara and the E-5. According to the District Governorate's district profile, the area is about 37.38 km², with a 12.4 km coastline; Avcılar is to the east, Esenyurt to the north, Büyükçekmece to the west and the Sea of Marmara to the south, while the E-5 runs along the district's northern edge. The same page places Ambarlı commercial port and the Haramidere filling facilities in Yakuplu, on the eastern shore; the western Gürpınar coast is described as a recreation and water-sports area. The District Governorate's Local Authorities data and İBB's planning-notes page list the same 10 neighbourhoods: Adnan Kahveci, Barış, Büyükşehir, Cumhuriyet, Dereağzı, Gürpınar, Kavaklı, Marmara, Sahil and Yakuplu. Our map is generated from OpenStreetMap boundaries and shows 11 polygons; the extra area is Beylikdüzü Organised Industrial Zone, which is not listed as a neighbourhood officially. We show that difference below (sources: Beylikdüzü District Governorate, district profile, Local Authorities, İBB Urban Transformation, Beylikdüzü planning note, accessed 30.09.2026).

The car route from Sancaktepe to Beylikdüzü is about 68–74 km, taking 52–59 minutes in free-flowing traffic. Yakuplu is 68.4 km away, the neighbourhoods' geographic centre is 69.0 km away, and Gürpınar is 73.9 km away. Traffic on the E-5 and the Metrobüs side roads changes journey times (source: OSRM / OpenStreetMap, September 2026). This car route does not account for lorry restrictions; our lorry uses Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, so we do not give a separate distance or time for its route.

Crossing the Bosphorus: which bridge takes the lorry

Lorries coming from the Asian side use Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge: KGM closes the 15 July Martyrs and Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridges to lorry classes, and the Eurasia Tunnel tariff has no lorry class (sources: KGM Restrictions and Prohibitions, Eurasia Tunnel fares, accessed 30.09.2026). The lorry crosses in the north and heads west; the final stretch follows the E-5 side road or streets leading down from Avcılar towards the coast. Which crossing a smaller vehicle can use depends on its class; we confirm it during the survey.

Beylikdüzü map: neighbourhoods, muhtarlık offices, stations

The map shows 11 polygons, 10 muhtarlık offices in the İBB layer and taxi ranks; there are no rail stations in the district. The eleventh polygon, absent from the official list, is Beylikdüzü Organised Industrial Zone. Satellite view distinguishes the housing blocks in the north, the coastal neighbourhoods in the south and Yakuplu port.

Muhtarlık officesRail stationsTaxi stands
Boundaries from OpenStreetMap; click a district or a marker for details. Sources and licences are listed on the data sources page.

Access profile, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

The narrow, steep and high labels below compare Beylikdüzü neighbourhoods only; they are not comparisons with other districts. Gradient values come from a surface model, so read them as a ranking between neighbourhoods rather than precise measurements.

NeighbourhoodNarrow / one-way streetsSlopeParking (mapped)Building heightRail stations
Adnan Kahvecimostly%9moderate%4.4dense15high-rise~11.5—
Barışsome%5moderate%4.3some2high-rise~10.2—
Beylikdüzü Organize Sanayi Bölgesifew%2flat%3.8scarce0low-rise~2.5—
Büyükşehirmostly%7flat%3.4some1low-rise~4.3—
Cumhuriyetmostly%11flat%2.8dense3mid-rise~6—
Dereağzıfew%1hilly%5some5high-rise~9—
Gürpınarsome%5hilly%5.1dense12mid-rise~6.5—
Kavaklısome%3moderate%4.7some1mid-rise~5.4—
Marmaramostly%6moderate%4.4dense11mid-rise~8.8—
Sahilfew%2hilly%6.4scarce0high-rise~10—
Yakuplusome%4hilly%5.2scarce0low-rise~3—

Computed on 2026-09-30 from OpenStreetMap streets, parking areas and buildings inside each neighbourhood; categories are relative to the other neighbourhoods of this district. Narrow = share of local street length that is one-way, under 5.5 m wide or single-lane. Slope = average street grade from the Copernicus DEM (30 m surface model; indicative). * station under construction (İBB).

What the figures mean on moving day:

  • The housing belt along the E-5 — Adnan Kahveci, Barış, Cumhuriyet and Büyükşehir: average gradient is 2.8–4.4%, the steep-street share is 10–25%, and narrow or one-way streets account for 5–11%. Floor data is available for 42% of buildings in Barış (an average of 10.2 floors) and 8% in Adnan Kahveci (11.5 floors). Adnan Kahveci has the district's highest figures, with 991 buildings and 15 car parks across 4.54 km². Büyükşehir covers 0.95 km², with 152 buildings and one car park; Cumhuriyet covers 1.26 km², with 81 buildings and three car parks. Before moving day, we confirm the site-management time slot, vehicle registration and goods lift; residents' accounts of double-parking mean we choose the lorry's stopping point in advance.
  • Neighbourhoods sloping down to the coast — Sahil, Yakuplu, Dereağzı, Gürpınar and Kavaklı: average gradient is 4.7–6.4%, the steep-street share is 30–45%, and narrow or one-way streets account for 1–5%. Sahil is the steepest neighbourhood (6.4% average gradient, 45% steep streets); across 1.55 km² it has 216 buildings and no mapped car park. Dereağzı is the largest and has the longest street network, at 6.6 km² and 73.6 km of streets. Kavaklı has the district's largest building stock, with 1,118 buildings; Yakuplu has 537 and Gürpınar 515. Floor data in the profile is limited; residents mention low-rise blocks and stepped streets down to the coast in Gürpınar and Dereağzı. We decide where the lorry can wait and where an exterior lift can stand during the survey.
  • In between — Marmara: 5.6 km², 37.8 km of streets, 6% narrow or one-way streets, a 4.4% average gradient and a 24% steep-street share. It has 686 buildings and 11 car parks. Floor data is available for 12% of buildings (an average of 8.8 floors). We account for heavy traffic on the coastal road around Yakuplu's port and filling facilities.
  • The eleventh polygon on the map — Beylikdüzü Organised Industrial Zone: 1.52 km² and 13.4 km of local streets; 2% of streets are narrow or one-way, average gradient is 3.8% and the steep-street share is 22%. The map has 65 buildings and no car park area. This polygon comes from the OpenStreetMap boundary and is not on the District Governorate's list of 10 neighbourhoods. For workshop and warehouse moves, we confirm the ramp, vehicle access and working hours during the survey.

Site developments and urban renewal

The municipality's Wednesday Market shuttle page lists Megakent, Adakent, Avkon, Ada90, İhlas, Bizimkent and other housing developments, as well as blocks A, B and C in Büyükşehir (source: Beylik Market shuttles, accessed 30.09.2026). Before a move, we confirm the site entrance, car-park height limit, management's time slot and goods-lift booking. İBB's risky-building planning note covers all 10 neighbourhoods. The municipality's Urban Transformation Directorate handles evacuation notices and assistance for buildings officially confirmed as risky, but does not publish a neighbourhood or project list (sources: İBB planning note, Urban Transformation Directorate, accessed 30.09.2026). Residents mention vacant plots and handovers of newly built sites; we move belongings into storage after evacuation and deliver them when the new flat is ready.

What residents say

Summaries of public community discussions, in our own words, with links to the source. These are residents' views, not our crew's notes; we add our own observations as we complete jobs here.

  • Adnan Kahveci, Cumhuriyet

    Although the boulevards are wide, double- and even triple-parking is common on the streets; accounts say both halves of divided roads carry two-way traffic. Around the cluster of private schools and nurseries, parents are said to block the road at morning and lunchtime pick-up.

    a few comments · ekşi sözlük: beylikdüzü trafiği (2025-12)

  • Adnan Kahveci, Cumhuriyet, Barış, Gürpınar, Dereağzı, Marmara

    The northern neighbourhoods alongside the E-5, Adnan Kahveci, Cumhuriyet and Barış, are described as a newer, densely built belt of housing sites; Gürpınar, Dereağzı and Marmara, sloping towards the sea, feel less developed and like a separate area. Without a metro, people without cars are said to rely on minibuses and the Metrobüs, and parts of Yaşam Vadisi beyond its first phase are described as dark in the evening; wide streets and planned housing sites are seen as advantages.

    several comments agree · ekşi sözlük: beylikdüzü (2026-07 – 2026-08)

  • Adnan Kahveci, Yakuplu

    Adnan Kahveci is described as almost entirely housing blocks, with wide roads and shops nearby; the covered neighbourhood market is said to be very busy on Sundays, and Yaşam Vadisi and Yakuplu forest are used for walks. Since Esenyurt begins just above the centre, some addresses advertised as Beylikdüzü are warned to be in Esenyurt instead; a short trip by minibus is said to take a long time.

    a few comments · ekşi sözlük: beylikdüzü (2026-04 – 2026-08)

  • Büyükşehir, Kavaklı

    Accounts say the Volvo junction, now called Vira, where seven roads meet, and the central market areas cause congestion; the overpass by the state hospital and ongoing roadworks are also said to disrupt traffic. One resident writes that about a third of the district is still vacant land, that some flats completed years ago have never been occupied, and that new site handovers and construction roads continue.

    a few comments · ekşi sözlük: beylikdüzü (2026-02)

  • Gürpınar, Dereağzı

    Residents write that there are no tall buildings around the crossroads where the Gürpınar, Dereağzı and Büyükçekmece roads meet the uphill route to Adnan Kahveci; most are said to be four-storey apartment blocks at most, or one- or two-storey detached homes. Older summer-home buildings and streets with steps down to the coast are also mentioned.

    single opinion · ekşi sözlük: gürpınar (2023-02)

  • Gürpınar

    The neighbourhood is said to be outside walking distance of the Metrobüs and connected by minibus; despite having had only a few summer-home sites twenty years ago, the former village is described as still having vacant land. One writer calls the area a landslide-risk slope; the same warning also appears under Beykent.

    a few comments · ekşi sözlük: gürpınar (2021-09 – 2023-02)

  • Kavaklı

    Unlike Adnan Kahveci, Cumhuriyet and Barış, Kavaklı is described as a quieter, less crowded area without high-rise blocks, with most buildings three or four storeys high. The area around the Volvo junction, parts near the valley and low-rise housing sites are highlighted.

    single opinion · ekşi sözlük: kavaklı (2025-01)

  • Cumhuriyet, Kavaklı, Sahil

    The park is said to run from many neighbourhoods in the district to Kavaklı coast; its cycling and walking paths are not separated, and maintenance is ongoing.

    a few comments · ekşi sözlük: yaşam vadisi (2025-04 – 2025-09)

  • Büyükşehir

    Writers say traffic became confusing after Beykent's roundabout was removed and replaced by a straight road; older posts describe the area as made up entirely of housing sites and a 15-minute walk from the Metrobüs.

    single opinion · ekşi sözlük: beykent (2014-02 – 2023-10)

Collected 2026-09-30.

The moves we see most in Beylikdüzü

  • Moves within housing sites and new-build handovers: block developments in Adnan Kahveci, Barış and Cumhuriyet, as well as flats residents describe as never occupied; site approval, goods-lift booking and vehicle registration are arranged in advance.
  • Family homes (2+1, 3+1): dismantling and packing in the high-rise northern belt; an exterior lift is part of the plan for the lower-rise buildings in Kavaklı and Gürpınar that residents describe as three or four storeys. A 2+1 has two bedrooms plus a living room; a 3+1 has three.
  • Single-person homes (1+1, studio): in neighbourhoods near the Metrobüs corridor; a two-person team and a smaller vehicle may be enough. A 1+1 has one bedroom plus a living room.
  • Urban-renewal clearances and storage: for belongings removed from buildings served with evacuation notices in the 10 neighbourhoods covered by İBB's plan, we arrange the move and storage together.
  • Offices, shops and workshops: workplaces along the E-5 and workshops and warehouses in the Beylikdüzü Organised Industrial Zone polygon; moves require an out-of-hours slot and a ramp plan.
  • Moves to and from coastal neighbourhoods: low-rise buildings in Gürpınar and Dereağzı that residents say date from the summer-house era; we add crew capacity for streets with steps.

You can check the volume of your belongings and a suitable vehicle size on our moving calculator.

After you move: registration, muhtarlık, municipality

Register your residence through e-Devlet or at your neighbourhood muhtarlık, the local headman's office. Addresses for Beylikdüzü's 10 muhtarlık offices:

  • Adnan Kahveci Mahalle MuhtarlığıErenler Cad. ADNAN KAHVECİ/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Barış Mahalle MuhtarlığıSakarya Cad. No:21 BARIŞ/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Büyükşehir Mahalle MuhtarlığıŞehit K. Uğur Gürsoy Sk. No:4 BÜYÜKŞEHİR/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Cumhuriyet Mahalle MuhtarlığıAtatürk Bulvarı No:11 CUMHURİYET/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Dereağzı Mahalle MuhtarlığıGüldalı Sk. No:8 DEREAĞZI/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Gürpınar Mahalle MuhtarlığıMillet Cad. No:19 C GÜRPINAR/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Kavaklı Mahalle MuhtarlığıÇay Sk. No:6 KAVAKLI/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Marmara Mahalle MuhtarlığıHürriyet Bulvarı No:60 /1 MARMARA/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Sahil Mahalle MuhtarlığıAktoprak Cad. No:67 SAHİL/BEYLİKDÜZÜ
  • Yakuplu Merkez Mahalle MuhtarlığıHakimiyet Cad. No:25 YAKUPLU/BEYLİKDÜZÜ

Source: İBB Open Data Portal, Muhtarlık Adres Bilgileri (İBB Open Data Licence 1.0), data date 2025-06-05. Personal names are not shown.

The municipality's service building is at No. 2 Enver Adakan Avenue, Büyükşehir neighbourhood; the Solution Centre is 444 09 39, and the switchboard is 0 212 871 15 31. The website does not list a WhatsApp line or opening hours; it directs requests and complaints to the e-municipality portal and Solution Centre (source: Beylikdüzü Municipality contact, accessed 30.09.2026). The District Governorate is in the Government Building at No. 18 Hürriyet Boulevard, Yakuplu neighbourhood. The Land Registry and Population and Citizenship Directorates are in the same building; cadastral work is handled through the Büyükçekmece Cadastral Office (sources: District Governorate contact, Service units, accessed 30.09.2026).

Permits for lorries and exterior lifts: we could not find a published rule or fee on the municipality's website for a moving vehicle or mobile lift temporarily using the road or pavement (accessed 30.09.2026). The Municipal Police Directorate page says that it has building materials removed when they obstruct roads and pavements, and checks that vehicles carrying excavation follow their notified routes. Its Orders and Prohibitions text is attached as a file, but is not available as readable page text; the page gives no separate Municipal Police telephone number (source: Municipal Police Directorate, accessed 30.09.2026). If a move requires us to block a street, we notify the Solution Centre a day in advance.

Old furniture, rubble and waste collection days: according to the municipality's environmental services page, registered electrical waste is collected from the address every Wednesday, and used cooking oil every Tuesday and Thursday. Renovation rubble is charged for and requested through E-rubble in the e-municipality portal. We could not find a collection service or day for old furniture and white goods, or collection days for household waste and packaging (sources: Environmental Services, Environmental Protection and Control Directorate, accessed 30.09.2026). We take away boxes and packing materials left on moving day; during the survey, we set aside items that will not be used.

Public transport

There is no operating or under-construction metro station in Beylikdüzü; the district is not named on Metro İstanbul's list of lines or its project pages. The main route is the Metrobüs along the E-5: İETT says the service runs 24 hours a day, with 52 km of route, 44 stations and six service patterns. Beylikdüzü Son Durak is listed as an endpoint; the Marmaray interchange is at Küçükçekmece and the westernmost metro interchange is at Yenibosna. İETT's page does not list individual stop names, so official sources do not let us say which E-5 stop lies in Beylikdüzü and which in Esenyurt. Residents also write that some addresses described as Beylikdüzü around the E-5 are actually in Esenyurt, so we verify the address against its title deed or muhtarlık record (sources: Metro İstanbul lines, lines under construction or planned, İETT Metrobüs lines, accessed 30.09.2026). The District Governorate lists a marina on Yakuplu's coast, but we could not find an official page for a ferry pier. For moving day, residents say the side roads leading to Metrobüs stations fill early in the morning, while minibuses run along streets within the southern neighbourhoods; on both sides, we start loading before 07.00.

    Source: İBB Open Data Portal, Raylı Sistem İstasyon Noktaları (İBB Open Data Licence 1.0), data date 2025-06-05. Stations located inside the district boundary.

    Neighbouring districts

    To the east, see our Avcılar page; to the north, Esenyurt; and to the west, Büyükçekmece. The Sea of Marmara is to the south. For a short move into a neighbouring district, the order stays the same: check the street, floor, site rules, time and team. For the whole city, see our İstanbul removals page.

    Sources

    The boundaries, muhtarlık addresses, taxi ranks and access profile were calculated from the open datasets below; information from the District Governorate, municipality, İBB, KGM, ATAŞ, Metro İstanbul and İETT is summarised in our own words and linked to its source.

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