Turkcell: Turkcell İzmir Data Center

Turkcell İzmir Data Center is operated by Turkcell / Turkcell Superonline and is located in the İzmir metro, Türkiye. Turkcell’s wholesale materials identify İzmir as one of its active next-generation data center locations, alongside Gebze, Temelli, and Europe. The facility extends Turkcell’s national data center footprint into the Aegean region, supporting enterprise hosting, colocation, and connectivity-led deployments outside Istanbul and Ankara.

From a market-positioning standpoint, İzmir is one of Türkiye’s main commercial and port cities, giving the location relevance for regional enterprise demand, logistics-driven industries, and west-coast business continuity strategies. Uptime Institute records the site as “İzmir Data Center” under Turkcell, while project references describe the facility as a purpose-built campus-scale development in the İzmir market with a focus on resilience, secure operations, and sustainable design.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

1. Part of Turkcell’s active next-generation data center portfolio.
2. Turkcell’s general data center platform references secure, redundant, high-availability infrastructure across its facilities.
3. Uptime Institute lists the facility as İzmir Data Center under Turkcell.
4. The site is publicly described as operational since June 2018.
5. Project references describe the facility with 14,500 sqm of area.
6. Third-party project references describe the site as built with multiple modules and associated generator infrastructure.
7. Turkcell’s wholesale materials state customers receive 24/7 active technical support for data center operations.

🔐 Security & Compliance

1. Uptime Institute lists the İzmir facility in its awards records for Turkcell.
2. Turkcell’s public data center materials reference Tier III, ISO, and PCI-DSS certification across its data center platform.
3. Turkcell’s wholesale materials position its data centers as aligned with national and international standards for hosted infrastructure.
4. Turkcell’s data center platform emphasizes secure access, redundancy, and continuous service availability.
5. Project references describe the İzmir facility as LEED Gold. Because I did not find a current direct Turkcell or USGBC project page clearly naming this specific site in the sources reviewed, I am treating that as a project-reference claim rather than a fully independently verified certification record here.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

1. Turkcell states customers can access the Turkcell network, internet, and interconnections between operators within the data center.
2. Turkcell offers Data Center In-Building Connection for interconnection between Turkcell Superonline and operators within the facility.
3. Turkcell offers Data Center MPLS VPN services for hosted deployments terminating in its data centers.
4. Turkcell’s IP services materials state its data centers are directly interconnected with major Tier-1 providers and content owners over its redundant fiber infrastructure.
5. The İzmir location is well suited to low-latency access for western Türkiye and Aegean-region enterprise environments while still connecting into Turkcell’s national platform. This is a geographic and network inference based on the site’s location and Turkcell’s published wholesale connectivity model.

💼 Who It Serves

1. Enterprises requiring colocation or hosted infrastructure in the İzmir and Aegean market.
2. National and international operators needing local network access, hosting, and in-building interconnection in Türkiye.
3. Organizations deploying business continuity and geographically distributed architectures outside Istanbul and Ankara. This is a grounded inference from Turkcell’s multi-site data center footprint.
4. Cloud and digital service providers using carrier-connected hosted environments in western Türkiye. This is a grounded inference based on Turkcell’s wholesale and IP backbone service model.