Transport Ministry

Prosecutors have decided to arrest Mümin Karasu, a maintenance manager at Turkish State Railways (TCDD), in the case of a deadly train derailment in the northwestern province of Tekirdağ's Çorlu district in 2018, killing 25 people.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry is aiming to open the Maiden's Tower, whose restoration works have been going on since September 2021, to visitors by next March, Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has said.

"We gave the building a tower museum format so that a structure that Istanbulites watch from afar will now become a structure from which they watch Istanbul from the inside," Ersoy said.

A weeklong strike by thousands of truckers in South Korea has triggered major disruptions in cargo transport and production that have caused 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in damages, officials said.

An extended strike may eventually worsen the global supply chains already battered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's pandemic curbs.

Russia is seeking assurances from Turkey that planes carrying Russian tourists will not be seized when they land in Turkey under the sanctions the western countries imposed on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.

The Touristic Eastern Express that runs from Ankara to the eastern province of Kars will resume operations, which were halted in March 2020, in December.

The train will depart from Ankara on Dec. 15, said Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu in a written statement. 

The public servants with the Transport Ministry are very courageous to allot from public funds subsidies for the rail transport of people, on their own responsibility, without an electronic system in place to check what happened to this money, Bogdan Chiritoiu, the chair of the Competition Council, told on Wednesday the conference "Modern and efficient: rolling stock that Romania needs," organi

The European Cybersecurity Center must use the zero-trust concept, which is imperative and highly topical in cybersecurity, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Dragos Preda told a debate on digitization today. "The zero-trust concept implies total distrust, permanent verification.

In a bid to do away with corruption and to better prepare candidate drivers, the Transport Ministry has drafted a bill that changes the way tests for driving licenses are conducted.

The European Emergency Number 112 in Greece will be upgraded with the e-Call service, which will send out information directly from vehicles involved in an emergency, according to a ministerial agreement signed on Wednesday.

The decision was made by the Transport Ministry