President Tayyip ErdoğanAttended the ceremony held due to the placement of the last block of 318-meter steel towers of the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge. In his speech, President Erdoğan wished the ceremony would be beneficial for the country and nation. Noting that all the blocks of the 4 towers were completed with this process and an important stage in the construction of the bridge was left, Erdoğan congratulated the ministers and contractor company officials who contributed at all stages of the project from the very beginning to the present level. Erdogan also congratulated Binali Yıldırım, Ahmet Arslan and Cahit Turhan, past the Ministers of Transport, and thanked them.
Pointing out that the bridge is the most critical crossing point of the big highway network surrounding the Marmara Sea from both sides, Erdoğan continued: “Essentially, the bridge construction in the Dardanelles is the dream of the centuries. To make it a reality like many dreams in our country, praise be to us. The 2023-meter middle span of the bridge is also an expression of our 2023 targets. This is not a random target. This bridge, which has the title of “the longest in the world” in its field, will decorate the Bosphorus as a symbol of our 1915 Çanakkale Victory for centuries. I believe that every citizen who will complete the Bosphorus journey, which takes 1.5 hours by ferry, in 6 minutes by bridge, will be graciously rewarding those who earned this work to our country, and the mercy of the epic in Çanakkale. ”