# The Things Network Istanbul

A local community of The Things Network: people building an open, free LoRaWAN® network for the Internet of Things in and around Istanbul.

- Country: [Turkey](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/turkey/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2016
- Members: 55
- Location: 41.0193, 28.9709
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/

## About

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey more than 15 Million people and our mission is to enable IoT for this lovely city.

As starting point we are going to deploy our gateways from Asian Side(Anatolian Side) to European Side to connect two continents.

## Contact

[@merturk](http://twitter.com/merturk)
[@talhakkas](http://twitter.com/talhakkas)

## Resources

- [Forum](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/)
- [TTN - Generic Presentation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49WRBg1NvMgM2lBcXRTU2ZqREU/)

## In the media

- [The Next Web - The Things Network wants to make every city smart](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/19/the-things-network-wants-to-make-every-city-smart-starting-with-amsterdam/)

## Recent updates

- [Idef Fuarı](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/idef-fuar.md) (2019-04-29)
- [LoRa/LoRaWAN Giriş Bölüm 1](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/loralorawan-giris-bolum-1.md) (2019-03-30)
- [LoRaWAN 2. Event Slides](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/lorawan-2-event-slides.md) (2016-12-06)
- [Second LoRaWAN Meetup](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/second-lorawan-meetup.md) (2016-12-01)
- [IoT Projects with LoRaWAN](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/iot-projects-with-lorawan.md) (2016-10-27)
- [Second Meetup](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/second-meetup.md) (2016-10-14)
- [LoRaWAN LinkedIn](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/lorawan-linkedin.md) (2016-10-08)
- [The First Meetup](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/the-first-meetup.md) (2016-08-25)
- [Our First Gateway](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/istanbul/post/our-first-gateway.md) (2016-07-17)