{"id":27550,"date":"2010-12-01T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=27550"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:09:17","slug":"istanbuls-air-traffic-will-be-eased-by-new-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/01\/istanbuls-air-traffic-will-be-eased-by-new-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0130stanbul\u2019s air traffic will be eased by new airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Turkish Transportation Minister has announced a third airport in \u0130stanbul will be constructed on the European side and that it will have a yearly passenger capacity of 60 million.<\/p>\n

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Passengers waiting at the \u0130stanbul Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s Airport international flight terminal. Currently, the two airports in \u0130stanbul are not enough to reduce the density in the air traffic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking to the Anatolia news agency on Monday, Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said the civil aviation sector in Turkey has witnessed crucial developments in recent years that have resulted in increased density of air traffic across Turkey and especially in \u0130stanbul. He noted that there are currently two operating airports in \u0130stanbul — the \u0130stanbul Atat\u00fcrk and Sabiha G\u00f6k\u00e7en airports — and they are working on a third airport to be constructed in \u0130stanbul.<\/p>\n

Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m underlined that the next airport will be constructed on the European side, although they have not decided on the exact area yet. \u201cThe new airport in \u0130stanbul will have a capacity of at least 60 million passengers-per-year. There will be at least two independent landing fields, and it is expected to be one of the most important airports in Europe. It will be tendered with a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model and will cost approximately $5 billion, including the connecting highways to this airport,\u201d said the Minister. He added that Sabiha G\u00f6k\u00e7en Airport had decreased the density of Atat\u00fcrk Airport and with the planned third airport \u0130stanbul\u2019s problems with air traffic congestion will be significantly eased.<\/p>\n

Transportation Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m noted that the two operating airports in \u0130stanbul are not enough to meet the air traffic demand of the major Turkish city and announced that a third airport will be contstructed in \u0130stanbul, on the European side<\/p>\n

Separately, Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m also touched upon unfinished subway projects in \u0130stanbul and Ankara. He said the responsibility for the projects has recently been transferred from local authorities to the Transportation Ministry, but they are waiting approval from the cabinet. Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said the Transportation Ministry and the Transportation Ministry\u2019s General Directorate of Railroads, Ports and Airports Construction (DLH) will continue with the unfinished subway projects in the two major cities in Turkey. \u201cIt is not definite but we, as the ministry, think that the same construction companies will continue subway construction in \u0130stanbul, while in Ankara we will work with the companies that we would like to continue and otherwise tender the subway project again. We would like to complete these projects as soon as possible and give priority to subway projects. It is expected that subway construction will be completed in two to two-and-a-half year\u2019s time\u201d said the minister.<\/p>\n

Answering a question regarding the S\u00fcrat Railway Project, Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m noted the project started in the year 1974 and that only 60 kilometers of rail have been constructed since then. He said the S\u00fcrat Railway Project\u2019s aim was to connect Ankara with \u0130stanbul passing through the Aya\u015f Tunnel and that the total length of the railway was estimated as 260 kilometers. \u201cWe are not considering completing this project as well but are thinking of rehabilitating the Ankara-Aya\u015f part of the project in such a way that trains could travel at speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour. This rehabilitation will cost approximately TL 150 million, and in this way, we could at least make use of the completed part of the project and spend less money,\u201d said Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Turkish Transportation Minister has announced a third airport in \u0130stanbul will be constructed on the European side and that it will have a yearly passenger capacity of 60 million. Speaking to the Anatolia news agency on Monday, Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said the civil aviation sector in Turkey has witnessed crucial developments in recent years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":27552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[4610,4609],"class_list":["post-27550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-binali-yildirim","tag-third-istanbul-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}