Originally Posted by FapperX

First of all, don't use Istanbul Airport(new one) use Sabiha Gokcen.
New airport is too far from the city and there's no good transportation yet. so taxi's trying to explore your holes.

Use Pegaus Airlines instead of THY. Of course if you can find cheap flight, jump on it.

For travel to east, you might have a better chance to find cheap flights with lufthansa or swiss. But you can also east step by step. for example, almaty or ashgabat then more east like to india etc.

Also airline's websites and google flights should be first source to look for tickets.