Jun 27 2021 11:38 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: Jun 27 2021 11:40 Gmt+3
Kanal Istanbul will be a historic page in Turkey’s development, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, as he kicked off the construction of the project on Saturday.
Erdoğan praised the project as his “dream,” during his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony of Sazlıdere Bridge, one of the six bridges planned to be built over the project, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday.
“We consider Kanal Istanbul as a project to save the future of Istanbul,” he said.
The artificial waterway project will connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and thus the Aegean to and the Mediterranean.
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Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanlığından “rüyası” olan, Başbakan olarak görev yaptığı 27 Nisan 2011’de duyurusunu yaptığı Kanal İstanbul projesine start veriliyor.
Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan tarafından 2011'de açıklanan ve kamuoyunda "çılgın proje" olarak bilinen Kanal İstanbul, bugün ilk köprünün temelinin atılmasıyla fiilen hayata geçirilmeye başlanacak.
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