Kanal İstanbul

Turkey will hold a tender for the construction of a 45-kilometer shipping canal running parallel to the Bosphorus Strait, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec. 6, despite a government freeze on new investments as it reins in spending.

Turkey's Environment and Urban Minister Murat Kurum has said that the project to build a canal in Istanbul, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara west of the Bosphorus, will proceed as it was planned.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has described the construction of Canal Istanbul, an artificial sea-level waterway that will connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, as a "strategic project."

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on April 28 the first initiative of his government after winning elections would be the construction of Canal Istanbul, an artificial sea-level waterway that will connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara. 

Turkey on Jan. 15 unveiled the “most appropriate” route for the controversial planned Canal Istanbul project, an artificial sea-level waterway parallel to the Bosphorus that will connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.

The route for an artificial canal bisecting Istanbul, once hailed as a “crazy project” by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has finally been determined, according to documents sent to the Environment and Urbanization Ministry by the Transport Ministry.

Two agreements on the establishment of a military base in Qatar and the training of the Qatari gendarmerie by Turkey have been moved forward on the agenda of the general assembly in parliament. This move was done upon a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group proposal. It was ratified at the speed of lightning and is now in force. 

Three artificial islands will be built in the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea with excavation from the construction of Istanbul's controversial Kanal Istanbul project, aiming to build a "second Bosphorus," daily Habertürk reported on Jan. 31.

The Turkish parliament has adopted a government-led omnibus bill which includes various legal arrangements concerning issues such as rebuilding the conflict-hit Sur district in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, the assertive "Kanal Istanbul" project, which foresees the building of a giant canal on Istanbul's European side to ease the aquatic traffic of the city's busy Bosphorus Strait, t

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has highlighted the ambition to build the assertive "Kanal Istanbul" project, which foresees the building of a giant canal on Istanbul's European side to ease the aquatic traffic of the city's busy Bosphorus Strait, "regardless of what anyone says."