Originally Posted by
ffay005
If you are able to check in online and if you arrive from the US, you can bypass security at IST. I would suggest you try to do this. By presenting your onward BP on deplaning at IST, you will be directed straight to the gate area.
the bypass security option is not available all the time (often there is lack of personel to check boarding passes for connecting passengers). on my last flights from Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Ireland) to IST where I connected there were no shortcuts open. you had to leave like anyone else and go through security again.