[1][2] According to the consulate's website, it had consular jurisdiction in İstanbul, Balıkesir, Bursa, Çanakkale, Edirne, Kırklareli, Kocaeli, Tekirdağ, Yalova, and Manisa provinces as of 2018.

[3] The consulate, along with the embassy in Ankara, has been the site of several regularly-occurring protests regarding relations between the Chinese government and the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.

[4][5] In 1989, Oral Çalışlar, Halil Berktay, and Hurriyet Karadeniz, then editors of the magazine "United Socialist" (Sosyalist Birlik), were arrested after laying a black wreath there to commemorate a "massacre" in China.

[7] After reports of further persecution of the Uyghurs in 2015, the Chinese consulate was one of several sites where protests took place, with "several hundred" people involved.

Sean Roberts of George Washington University investigated this and a number of other claimed terrorist attacks and concluded that it was the only instance of Uyghur "terrorism" out of the 45 occurrences provided by the government.