about hackathon türkiye

what this is

Hackathon Türkiye is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in Turkey and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one, and it browses by 7 city hubs.

Right now there are 4 upcoming events listed. That number moves every week — the collection run adds what it finds, and an event drops out of the main list into the archive once it has happened. The directory is new, so expect it to be on the thin side for a while; what is here is real.

We do not run hackathons. Every listing links out to the organiser's own page, which is where registration, rules, schedules and any questions about the event itself belong. Think of this as an index, not an intermediary.

where the listings come from

Listings are gathered automatically. Once a week, on a Sunday, a collection run checks the public event platforms that Turkish hackathon organisers actually use — Luma first of all, then Eventbrite, Meetup and Devpost — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening in Turkey, whether the listing calls it a hackathon (the same word, declined in Turkish). Organisers can also add an event directly through the submit form.

Automated collection is the only way to keep a directory of this kind current, but it is also the part most likely to be wrong, so candidates are filtered before they are published:

• Turkey only. Turkish is spoken nowhere else at scale, so the risk is online listings from Europe that accept Turkish teams and the Cypriot calendar. An event is accepted when a Turkish venue, a .tr link, the Europe/Istanbul timezone, a Turkish university or company, or a five-digit postcode confirms it.
• Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, buildathons, datathons and hack days and similar hands-on competitions. Conferences, webinars and meetups that merely mention the word do not qualify.
• Online events need a Turkish signal. An online listing is only kept if something ties it here — a local link, a local timezone, or Turkey-only eligibility rules.
• Still upcoming. Past events move to an archive section rather than the main listings.
• Not a duplicate. The same event cross-posted to two platforms is matched on its link or its title and merged into one listing.

how the listings are written

Once an event is accepted, its page is read and the details are pulled out — dates normalised to the local format (26 Eyl 2026), prices to lira, written ₺2.500 with a dot for grouping as Turkish does, the venue and address separated out, the banner image copied onto our own servers rather than hotlinked from the organiser. Titles stay exactly as the organiser wrote them. İstanbul, İzmir and Eskişehir are written with their Turkish letters as the organiser wrote them; only the URL is ASCII, and the dotted İ folds onto it.

how the city hubs work

Seven hub cities — İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa, Antalya, Kocaeli and Eskişehir — plus the districts and teknokent campuses around them. Each hub covers the area around it rather than the city limits alone, so events in Kadıköy, Çankaya, Gebze or Bornova all show up under their nearest hub. Konya, Adana, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Samsun and Trabzon keep their own name and show under all events. The kinds of event you will find — university and teknokent hackathons (ODTÜ, İTÜ, Boğaziçi, Bilkent), bank and holding-company challenges, platform-hosted competitions on coderspace and techcareer, civic and disaster-preparedness events, and game jams — are listed on the guide page.

money

The directory is funded by featured listings: an organiser can show their event as a banner on every page for seven days for a one-time fee. The order of ordinary listings is unaffected — it stays chronological.