Considering the impact on industrial storage activities and the industrial cluster, the
Organized Industrial Zones in Istanbul have a great share (Ministry of Information, Industry
and Technology, 2009) (Figure 1). The greatest organized industrial zone in Istanbul is
the I˙kitelli Organized Industrial Zone built on an area of 700 ha. Industrial clusters in the
metal sector are concentrated in U¨ mraniye on the Asian side, and in the textiles sector in
Ku¨c¸u¨kc¸ekmece on the European side (IMM, 2006d; Gezici et al., 2008). Therefore, industrial
clusters benefiting from the advantage of logistics facilities in those regions affect
favourably the location selection of warehouses.