Indians in istanbul need your help please
To all my fellow indians in istanbul. I am looking at a potential move to Istanbul with my family (including my wife and daughter) and just wanted to get a sense of what's it like for indian's to live in istanbul, are there many indians around? what is the average cost of living, medical facilities, schools for children my daughter is 20 months and would need to go to a play school, is language an issue? do we get Hindi TV channels in Istanbul, are there many indian restaurants, is it a safe place since my job involves travelling?
Any advise would be realy really helpful
looking forward to hearing back
thanks and regards
anuj
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Regards
Once again thanks for you earlier response.
Kind Regards
anuj
I am sorry but I don聮t agree with the other post I moved here from Singapore last year it聮s a beautiful place but a very difficult place to live because not everybody speak English specially people you meet every day like taxi drivers shop keepers and if you don聮t know the place you can get a bus until you know where are you going caz no 1 speak English but yes people are friendly but if you can speak little bit Turkish, you don聮t find English menu in normal restaurants. Its difficult to get dasi species 2 people going to Indian restaurant 1 daal 1 chicken dish 1 rice and naan with coke not beer or wine will cost around 100TL.Its expensive like Europe
Private schools are also expensive I know TEIS (Turkish English international school) its an early years school in levent 4 near to kanyon its about 13000 US $ per year .Forget about any Indian channels or cricket or speaking hindi with any other person. I find it聮s a very safe place even for females at night But as I said it聮s a beautiful place for weekend you will have places to go.
Hi Anuj,Istanbul is like mumbai, you can find posh areas as wll as slums(like)also,but overall istanbul is much safe and people are very kind, only difference is that not many people know english here,turkish people are kind and warm people but language become problem at times, however in istanbul around 100-150 indian families are there, and neby cities around 1 hr from istabul more 100-150 indians, butjust liek india family people are really busy and we ee in once or twice all together in a year. Costwise Turkey is expensive, for 3 people you will have to spend 600-1000TL i .e 400$ to 700$ except lodging, housing if company don't sponsor you will have to spend around 500TL i.e 350$ for rent, flats are easy to find and housing industry is in riping stage here, you will find plenty of options for school as told by Newcastle from prep education is 12K $, so education in that way is tooo much expensive. Hindi channels you can get 25-30 channels (all popular ones), indian restaurants are i think 2-3 in whole istanul. and offcourse it is a safe place..hope it helps to you! (when i came here i had the similar doubts) this forum is gr8 and hope it helps you and others....
Day by day Istanbul is becoming a very international city, here are many foreigners and of course many foreigners schools, we have American International school, British school, French and German schools+Turkish International schools which give international degrees. For your little daughter we have 'gym-boree' play schools here and many other english-turkish speaking kinder-gardens.聽
You are asking avarege cost of living in Istanbul, it shows varity, since annual income is not equal.聽 If you want 3 bedroom flat in the center a good one is about 1500-2000 $, the private schools are annualy 10.000-20.000 $. Food is I can say min.750 $.
But I can say that most foreigners like to live in Istanbul, may be because climate, you can find shopping and eating places for every budget....
You may visit our web page (moderated: no free ads) to have more information about Istanbul and via e-mail I can send you more details.
Good Luck,
Nazan Kaan
Lets see how the trip goes. But thanks once again for all your help and information its really very useful.
Kind Regards
anuj
I would like to learn your preference type of house.聽 If you want flat or private house in the compandium. Accordingly I can advise you different locations(school location is also important).
聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽I have just moved to turkey from Oman, but I located 谋n Isparta...st谋ll struggl谋ng for settl谋ng down due to language problem..hope w谋ll settle down soon..here hardly 谋nd谋and are l谋v谋ng.. but your case 谋n Istanbul many ch谋ces hope you w谋llsolvr all your problems..takecare...Anand
I visited Istanbul last month forget the Hindi speaking it was hard to find even English. And now i am just happy to read ur blogs. I am assured that There are Indians everywhere. We are planning rent a place near palladium so can u please help me find any schools for my son..
聽 聽 Waiting for ur replies...
Thank u...
thanks
anuj
Wanted to check hows is the Sisli area to live in for a family. My office is going to be in Levent and i was exploring potential areas for accomodations?
Any suggestions wopuld be welcome.
thanks
anuj
Sisli is almost central place to stay,from here to your office in levent will take max 15-20 minutes by underground metro.
cheers
Sethi
anujm wrote:Hi
To all my fellow indians in istanbul. I am looking at a potential move to Istanbul with my family (including my wife and daughter) and just wanted to get a sense of what's it like for indian's to live in istanbul, are there many indians around? what is the average cost of living, medical facilities, schools for children my daughter is 20 months and would need to go to a play school, is language an issue? do we get Hindi TV channels in Istanbul, are there many indian restaurants, is it a safe place since my job involves travelling?
Any advise would be realy really helpful
looking forward to hearing back
thanks and regards
anuj
Hi anuj
Im chander fm india(Gurgaon) i do looking fr similar help nd coming instanbul to setting up my new office in instanbul. Im into apparels business. Hw is urs going...did u manage everything...nd could u pls help me out to assit the same like im looking fr apart prefer to sharing or is ny hostel / indian family to stay sharing basis nd hw to get mingle with india frnds. Pls advise me via email chander@gratyuk nd if possible put me ur number i'll call u
Istanbul is nice place. There are聽 english speaking schools.Ii
I am here with 2 children as well and at times have to stay alone due
to my husbands travelling. .yes language is an issue and is important
we do get indian channels here its a paid service. . And 2/3 indian restautarnts
yes you will not find all indian spices and flours, what more. Hope
this information is helpful.
Bye regards
Rekha mehboob
Many people speak english in Istanbul.... where are you moving that you do not find them???? there is a huge foreign community that even have a group for ladies not to feel alone wile their couple work!!! International Woman of Istanbul iwi-tr.org/ contact them through the web page and they will give a guide.
Transportation in Istanbul is wonderfull!!!! you just need learn the system, in internet you can enter to: harita.iett.gov.tr/ in there you write from where you want to take the bus and the place you want to go and it describes step by step the busses and the station you must leave.
In the other hand there is the spices bazaar where you can find any spice you need for your food (remember this is another country but they have many of them)
Schools, yes there are many international schools and they are pretty spensive 10.000 to 20.000 per year. There are many other options since your kid is still baby.
Wish you the best in this new start do not let people influence you bad, is normal the begining may be hard but with good company and in family everything is better.
I will advice you to live close to your work because the trafic in istabul is like New Delhi or worse!!!!

If I can do anything else for you let me know.
Best regards
I dont understand why you delete my post! It is not advertisement! We are non profit NGO and the dinner will be free also for Indians, we are just inviting Indian expats to our dinner in an Indian restaurant
and why other people can post inviting people for some meetings and I cant?
Thank you for understanding!
The content of your post is not for forum purpose. That is why you were asked to post in classifieds.
Thanks for your comprehension.
Armand
There also are 2 good Indian restaurants in Sultanahmet, Dubb and Swaad.
Good luck!
Dis is M Kay. im a Mech Engr. from india currently in Riyadh,KSA.
I want to relocate myself to ISTANBUL. please guide me in this process.
Thanks & Best Regards,
M KAY.
i am coming from Qatar for job in end of January 2013,
any body advice about sponsor to family ?
1- how much salary required ?
2- after work visa how i can sponsor to family
3- any restrictions for sponsors
please reply in Details or provide me any link for informations
- once you get your work permit and residence permit you can sponsor your family.
- it depends on your qualification and experience and the sector you are working.
- you need to go to emniyet yabanci mud眉rl眉ğ眉 (police) and apply for your family.
- there is no restriction for your parents, wife and kids. i am not sure about relatives.
- here is the link if you are coming to istanbul :
good luck.
many thanks for reply and time.
Cheers
can any body advice about istanbul schools ? any indian and english school is there ?
please reply with some links
Regards
Looking for your support.
Regards,
I am planning to move Istanbul by the end of sept 2013 for my master program from Bahcesehir university. can any one tell me plz that how much it will cost for living in Istanbul per month? and can I work as a student there?
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I suggest you to start a new thread on the Istanbul Forum with all your questions please as you might get better interaction

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Maximilien
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Its very difficult to find indians in istanbul. Iam here working on turkey, but I could met none...!!! Except some tourists..
I have moved in Istanbul with my family this Friday. (25th Apr 2014). We are currently staying in NishantIshI until we finlize our apartment. My kids are 6 and 3 year. I am looking for some advice on how can we engage the kids here until their school starts in September. Also if there are any Indian mothers with whom I can talk to? It is really difficult to find anyone with whom you could talk in istanbul.
I will appriciate your help and support.
Thank you.
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