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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 77 pharmacies and drug stores
Best pharmacies and drug stores in Istanbul
The 10 most notable pharmacies and drug stores in Istanbul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Santral Eczane Optik
Atatürk Mahallesi Alemdağ Caddesi, Santral Sk. No:6A
51 m from Ümraniye, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.600, percentile 100 of 77
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2
Nesa Ortopedi
Bahariye Cad, Ali Suavi Sk. No:14/A
544 m from İskele Camii, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.600, percentile 98.68 of 77
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3
DO-PA A.Ş.
Kızılelma Caddesi 21
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.595, percentile 97.37 of 77
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4
Akın Eczanesi
Söğütlüçeşme Cad. No:121
436 m from Söğütlüçeşme railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.545, percentile 96.05 of 77
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5
Şişli Altuğ Eczanesi
Abide-i Hürriyet Cd NO:160A
270 m from Çağlayan Transfer Center, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.526, percentile 94.74 of 77
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6
Vanity Medikal
Tophanelioğlu Caddesi 1A
153 m from Altunizade (M14), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.482, percentile 93.42 of 77
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Şişli Fulya Eczanesi
Marriot Otel Karşısı, Abide-i Hürriyet Cd 193A
428 m from Şişli—Mecidiyeköy, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.473, percentile 92.11 of 77
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8
Alphan Eczanesi
Cumhuriyet Caddesi 31A
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.458, percentile 90.79 of 77
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9
Petek Eczanesi
Öztan Sk.
522 m from Emniyet—Fatih, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.456, percentile 89.47 of 77
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10
Melek Hatun Eczanesi
Mevlanakapı Mh. Selamağası Sk. No:19/a Pk:34104
615 m from Topkapı (T4), rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.397, percentile 88.16 of 77
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).