Changing the face of Turkey's mega projects

Changing the face of Turkey's mega projects: Channel Istanbul, Marmaray, Istanbul 3 airport, Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, Tunnel 3 Floor Large Istanbul, Turkey's face is changing with the project.

According to the information compiled by the AA correspondent, the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications has implemented major projects such as Marmaray, Ankara-Istanbul High Speed ​​Train (YHT), with an investment of over 13 billion lira in the last 260 years, 3rd airport to Istanbul, Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge (3rd Bridge), Istanbul-Izmir Highway, Kars-Baku-Tbilisi railway line, 3-Storey Grand Istanbul Tunnel Project has also started.

Istanbul-Izmir Highway Project, Kars-Baku-Tbilisi Railway Line, Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge (3. Bridge), Istanbul-Izmir Highway projects are expected to be completed by the end of this year. The Eurasian Tunnel will be completed next year. For the Channel Istanbul Project, work was started with the participation of related parties. The specification came to the writing stage.

3 Multi-Storeyed Istanbul Tunnel Project

The works have reached the tender stage in the 3-storey Grand Istanbul Tunnel Project, which is prepared to relieve the traffic of Istanbul. The length of the project, where 2 roads and 1 metro road will pass under the Bosphorus, will be 6,5 kilometers. The project will connect 9 rail systems in Istanbul. Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, Bosphorus Bridge and Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge will be connected to each other as a ring. The highway crossing that will need the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge and the metro pass that will complement the Bosphorus Bridge will become an integrity with a single line and a 3-storey mega project.

Upon completion of the project, the travel time between Hasdal-Ümraniye-Çamlık will be reduced to 14 minutes. Incirli-Sogutlucesme 6 thousand 500 meter tunnel will be passed in 40 minutes. 3. A fully integrated project with axles linking the airport, bridges and bridges will save you time to maximum. In the coming months, the tender process will be completed in the 5 tunnel is expected to be ready in the year.

This year 72 large project to be commissioned

On the highways this year, 3 large project will be completed and commissioned with the investment of 9,5 billion pounds including the Gebze-Orhangazi-İzmir (Izmit Gulf Crossing and Connection Roads) Motorway, Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge (72. Bridge). 4,1 will be thrown the basis of the 23 big project with a billion pounds of investment.

When İkizdere-İspir way on the Ovit Tunnel is completed, Turkey's and Europe's longest, will be the world's second longest double-tube tunnel. In the Ovit Tunnel, a 14,7-kilometer tunnel consisting of 2 tubes, each 30 kilometers, will be built. The tunnel is aimed to be opened to traffic in the first quarter of 2016.

Bridge to Çanakkale Strait

The tender for the Dardanelles Bosphorus Bridge, which is planned to be built between Lapseki and Gelibolu, is expected this year.

Work is continuing on a new project that will take the load on Istanbul and transport it to Europe via Çanakkale. Çanakkale Bridge will be the longest suspension bridge in the world with a total length of 2 meters and a length of 23 meters. The works of the project, where the railway line will pass, continue. The railway line, which is planned to pass over the Çanakkale Bridge, is also expected to reduce transportation costs. The project in question will be implemented with the build-operate-transfer model.

9 billion liras this year's investment amount of railways

In railways, where 5,1 billion lira was invested last year, the amount of investment this year will reach 9 billion liras. In the railways, especially in high-speed trains in 2014, one of the country's name mentioned frequently in the world, Turkey has so interconnected Ankara-Istanbul and Konya-Istanbul high-speed train.

Turkey and Georgia, Azerbaijan and Central Asian Turkish Republics reviving the historic Silk Road by ensuring uninterrupted rail link between transnational economic and be done with the aim of developing cultural cooperation is the Kars-Baku-Tbilisi railway line is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

Gebze-Haydarpaşa, Sirkeci-Halkalı With the improvement of the Suburban Line and the completion of the Railway Bosphorus Tube Crossing Construction, the trains will travel at 30 miles per hour instead of the 140 hour per hour.

2014 billion pounds of investment is made in the airline industry in 1,1, Turkey's first sea made on the Ordu-Giresun airport in Hakkari airports is scheduled for opening this year.

Work is also underway for the construction of regional aircraft, one of the most important targets of the 2023 year.

Native satellite in space in 2019

Launched last year, the TVS 4A satellite provided significant relief in terms of both image and channel number on television channels. Turksat 4B satellite, launched in June this year, will be used for internet access. Thus, both internet capacity will increase and the prices will be cheaper.

To take part in the construction of Turkey's first domestic Turkish engineers began working on Turksat satellite 6A. Turkey Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), the Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TAI), by ASELSAN, established in Kazan Satellite Integration and the satellite will be produced at the Test Center, aims to launch in 2019.

Studies continue for the production of the Turksat 25A satellite, 5 percent of which are domestic.

4G tender this year

It is aimed to switch to 4G by the end of the year in order to increase the speed of data traffic and resolution a little more. In this context, studies for the development of domestic technology started before the transition to 4G. Institutions and organizations such as ASELSAN, Undersecretariat for Defense Industries and Netaş were assigned to develop the local technology in question. The tender is planned to be made this year for the transition to 3G, which is 4-5 times faster than 4G.