Istanbul Atatürk Airport airport was originally named "Yeşilköy Airport". In the 1980s, it was renamed "Istanbul Atatürk International Airport" in honour of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey. It served more than 60 million passengers in 2015, making it the 11th-busiest airport in the world in terms of total passenger traffic and the 10th-busiest in the world in terms of international passenger traffic. As of 2017, it is Europe's 5th-busiest airport after London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt Airport and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, having fallen from third place after a decline in passengers due to
Toumazou v. Republic of Turkey Kocinski, Pat Clarke and Suz Latchford who paid for but have never been given legal title to the villas that they purchased. The named defendants were HSBC Bank USA, N.A., HSBC Group, HSBC Holdings PLC, Mehmet Ali Talat, and TRNC. Turkey was dropped as defendant on 16 February 2010 and the lawsuit name was subsequently revised to "Toumazou et al v. Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". On 30 September 2014, the court dismissed the case with prejudice for lack of jurisdiction. Toumazou v. Republic of Turkey Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al., was a class action suit