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Izmit

American  
[iz-mit] / ɪzˈmɪt /

noun

  1. a city in NW Turkey, on the E coast of the Sea of Marmara.


Izmit British  
/ ˈɪzmɪt /

noun

  1. a town in NW Turkey, on the Gulf of Izmit. Pop: 306 000 (2005 est)

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Ciftci said the attackers had come to Istanbul from the city of Izmit by rental car and that two of them were brothers.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

The political party founded by Erdogan in 2001 came to power amid an economic crisis and the Izmit quake.

From Seattle Times May 4, 2023

For Ms. Tercan, seeing video of people struggling amid the wreckage brought back vivid memories of her experiences as a survivor of the 1999 earthquake in Izmit, Turkey, in which more than 17,000 people died.

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2023

The most recent large quakes in that sequence were the magnitude 7.6 Izmit earthquake of August 1999, which struck east of Istanbul and resulted in an estimated 17,000 deaths.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 8, 2023

In 1999, a tremor of similar magnitude devastated Izmit and the heavily populated eastern Marmara Sea region near Istanbul, killing more than 17,000.

From Reuters Feb. 6, 2023

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