Hejaz Railway

Turkey has taken on the task to renovate a train station in Lebanon's Tripoli, located on the Hejaz Railway, which was built by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II between 1900 and 1908.

The body of a sculpture that was smuggled from Aphrodisias in 1904 is still in Berlin. 

1898: Ottoman Emperor Abdulhamid II provided work permit to French engineer Paul Gaudin to work in a railway construction in the Western Aegean region. He was first employed in the Bursa-Mudanya line and then in the İzmir-Eskişehir line.