A warm welcome to all our participants.

We are waiting for your arrival with great excitement.

Here are some instructions for you to find your way around.

Arriving at METU

The cheapest way to arrive to METU from Ankara airport (Esenboğa airport) is to pick up a drive

with one of the shuttle buses run by Belko Air or Havaş. You will see these buses parked just

outside the “Arrivals” exit. Ask to get out at ASTİ Otogar. This is the central bus station in Ankara

and it is the last stop on this line. From ASTİ take a taxi to METU campus.

Accommodation

All your accommodation booked through our website is located within the METU campus.

Entering the campus

The entrances to METU campus are guarded. We will provide the guards with a list of participants

for the conference. The guard will ask for your name and purpose of visit. Please show to him your

identity/passport, tell him that you are coming for ICAZ 2018 conference (Turkish: ICAZ 2018

kongresine katılıyorum) and be patient if he/she wants to check the list of participants to find your

name there.

After you receive your conference badge, please carry it with you, together with your identity card

or passport, when going out and returning back to the campus. You will be asked to show these

two documents to enter the campus again. It will not be a big problem if you forget your badge but

it will delay checking at the gates.

The campus has 9 entrances; all will have lists with your names. The central entrance is A1 gate

(Main gate – Turkish: ODTÜ A1, Ana kapı-A1 Kapısı), located on Eskisehir road. Closest to

dormitories is A4 (Yüzüncüyıl kapısı). For Aysel Sabuncu you can enter either from two gates

located on the Bilkent road (A7 and Bilkent Kapısı) as well as the A1 gate.

Addresses (what to say or show to your taxi driver)

The name of METU in Turkish is ODTÜ (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi)

The street address for METU campus is: ODTÜ, Üniversiteler Mah., Dumlupınar Blv.No:1.

Nevertheless, you will not need to use the above address. Just say/show to your taxi driver one

of the following:

KE1 = ODTÜ kampüsü, Öğrenci Konukevi 1, A4 (Yüzüncüyıl kapısı) kapısına yakın, Sunshine

kafenin hemen arkasında.

This in English means: METU campus, Students Konukevi 1, close to A4 gate ((Yüzüncüyıl gate),

immediately behind of the Sunshine café.

KE2 = ODTÜ kampüsü, Öğrenci Konukevi 2, A4 (Yüzüncüyıl kapısı) kapısına yakın Sunshine

kafe’den sonra.

This in English means: METU campus, Students Konukevi 1, close to A4 gate ((Yüzüncüyıl gate), after the

Sunshine café.

OGV = ODTÜ kampüsü, ODTÜ Geliştirme Vakfı Özel Öğrenci Konuk Evi, A4 (Yüzüncüyıl

kapısı) kapısına yakın, Sunshine kafeden sonra, 6nci yurdun yakınında.

This in English means: METU campus, ODTÜ Geliştirme Vakfı Özel Öğrenci Konuk Evi, close to A4 gate

(Yüzüncüyıl gate), after the Sunshine café, close to 6th dormitory.

.

ASYM = ODTÜ kampüsü, Aysel Sabuncu Yaşam Merkezi.

This in English means: METU campus, Aysel Sabuncu Yaşam Merkezi.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If you have booked a room for 2 or more persons and you have not specified during booking for

whom you have booked these extra rooms, please let us know the name of your accommodation

and the names of the people for whom you have booked.

If you booked a double room but intent to stay alone, and you have not noted this in your

booking notes, again, please inform us.

Contact Gonca Özger at goncaozger@gmail.com

Entering times

All accommodations, KE1, KE2, OGV and ASYM, will be open 24 hours.

NOTE: ASYM prefers to receive you after 11.00 in the morning. If you are arriving earlier, you

may need to wait for your room to be prepared.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If your airplane arrives at Ankara-Esenboğa airport at the wee hours (let’s say around 22.00 –

06.00) and you are booked at KE1 or KE 2 please email Gamze Durdu at

durdugamze@gmail.com.

Tell us the date and time of arrival of your airplane and where (KE1 or KE 2) you are booked in.

Recognising your building

KE 1

KE 2

OGV

Sunshine café

For ASYM photos see: http://stm.metu.edu.tr/asym-resimleri

Maps

A detailed but very complex map of the campus is at

https://www.metu.edu.tr/tr/system/files/odtu-kampus-haritasi.pdf. The map is colour, letter and

number coded. Every region has a colour, one or two letters assigned to it and set in a circle, then

numbers showing various locations.

Some useful locations:

KE1 =Ya region, No 14

KE2 =Ya region, No 15

OGV =Ya region, No 10

Sunshine café = Ya region, No 12

ASYM = this is at a far location within the campus and has no letter or number allocated. Find it

at bottom left of the map.

Culture and Convention Center = Hc region, grey colour, No 2

Vişnelik = (ODTÜ Mezunlar Derneği Vişnelik Tesisleri, where dinner will take place)

is at mid-right of the map.

The address of Vişnelik is: İşçi Blokları Mahallesi 1540. Sokak No:58. Again, the taxi driver will

know where to go if you simply say “Vişnelik”. The distance between Culture and Convention

Center and Vişnelik is about 2 km.

A simpler map of METU can be found at http://harita.odtu.edu.tr/.

PLEASE NOTE that in this map the KE 1 is called “ODTÜ Kız Konukevi” and the KE2 is called

ODTÜ Ebi Konukevi.

Shopping and eating

Next to KE1 there is a small restaurant called ARKABAHÇE. It is open from 7.30 in the

morning to 23.00 at night.

Inside OGV there is a cantin that serves food and snacks.

Sunshine café also sells food at a self-service base.

“ODTÜ Çarsı” (M region, orange colour) is a small market place where you can find shops of

fast food, restaurants, coffee shops, banks, post office, pharmacy, books and stationery, basic

clothes, hairdresser, taylor and a small supermarket. There are two photocopy places where you

can print your poster. These are located at the basement of the central, 3-floor building at Çarsı

(Region M, orange colour, No 1)

Retail shops at Çarsı are open between 9.30 am to 6.00 pm. The supermarket is open from 9.30

am to 9.00 pm.

Restaurants and cafes are open till 22.00 or 23.00 pm. In the morning opening times of these

vary depending on whether these shops offer breakfast or not. There are two shop offering

breakfast at Çarsı: Doyurucu and Susam Simit.

Çatı is another restaurant that sells a good variety of food at an open buffet system. Find it at the

map at Ac region, No31 (dark pink colour)

In Teknokent, (T region, dark blue) there is also a number of restaurants and coffee shops.

Teknokent is rather far from the dormitories but halfway through between Culture and Convention

Center and ASYM. The only restaurant that serves alcohol within the campus is located there and

it is called Çadır Kebap. It is located at the Silikon block of Teknokent (T region, No2, dark blue)

ASYM: Closest eating for ASYM is Teknokent in the campus (dark blue colour, at No8 at

Galyum block there are cafes and restaurants and at No2, at Silikon block is the Çadır Kebap)

where there is a rather limited variety of places. Rich in shopping/eating is the Bilkent Plaza (2.3

km). Cepa and Kent park are at 4.7 km distance from ASYM.

PLEASE NOTE that tobacco and alcohol products are not sold in METU campus. The closed place

to buy these is about 500 m as you go straight outside the campus from the A4 gate. There is a

shop, called “Naz gıda” that also sells prepacked food items, bread and dairy products. Above the

shop there is a small bar/restaurant. Supermarkets inside the shopping centers Cepa and Kent Park

also sell tobacco and alcohol. These are located on one of the main city roads (Eskisehir road) and

about 500 m at the left of A1 gate. You can also find all these at Bilkent Plaza.

Trips

All buses for all trips will start from the parking lot behind the Culture and Convention Center.

For the Neolithic trip, on the 31st August

and the Eskısehir trip on the 1st September,

there will be students waiting for you in front of Sun Shine café. They will wear their ICAZ

conference badges. Please be there by 8.10.

For people staying at ASYM we will come to pick you up. Please be at the entrance of ASYM by

8.10.

For the rest of the trips please go yourself at the Culture and Convention Center parking lot.