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Stability, the sole key of development and
improvement, is ensured with our government

led by our Prime Minister, Mr. Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan. Our country that had no ground left to

be reached, accessed is getting ready to witness

even greater projects.

When one looks at the world political We increased the length of our divided
history, one would see that the sole key of highways from 6 thousand 101 kilometers to
development and improvement is stability. 22 thousand 313 kilometers within the last
While stability reinforces the self-confidence decade. While 6 cities are connected to each
of regimes and economies, it also opens the other with divided highways, now 74 cities are
doors to development wide. Thank God, our connected. Today with its 65 thousand 434
government led by Prime Minister Mr. Recep km long highway network, Turkey is the most
Tayyip Erdoğan completed each year ahead important highway connection between
of the previous since 2002. Asia, Europe and Africa, and one third of our
highway network is composed of divided
Our country started each new year with highways.
greater hopes and bigger goals. In the time
that past from 2002 to 2012, we offered If we haven’t built more than 16 thousand
our country, our public ten thousands kilometers divided highway after 2003 that
of facilities, projects whose material and the number of our motor vehicles doubled,
spiritual values are extremely high. We personal vehicle ownership rose, passenger
made Turkey climb the ladder in respect coefficient increased, and transportation,
of democratization, human rights, justice trade, economical growth continued despite
and being a constitutional state. We carried of the crisis, Turkey would be, so to say, in
out the projects dreamed for years, even a state that cannot carry this burden. Our
for centuries, and opened them to the goal in 2023 that is the 100th Anniversary of
service. We added new monuments to the our Republic is to make almost half of our
tomorrows of Turkey, to the future of Turkey. existing highway network divided highways
and to have a 37 thousand kilometers divided
“No ground left to be reached, accessed” highway network.
We always say that the development of a
place that cannot be reached and accessed
is impossible. And above all, it is not possible WE LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN
for Turkey that has the target of increasing OF RAILWAYS
its export to 500 billion dollars within the
next decade to have any unreachable We are the ones who blew away the
and inaccessible ground. In this sense, we cobwebs on the railways. Our railways that
invested 192 billion TL to transportation have a history of almost 157 years had their
and communication sector since 2003. My brightest years in the period of Atatürk.
ministry carried out huge projects that will However, they had been neglected as of
change the image of Turkey and increase its 1940s. We launched a new railway campaign
value even more in the international arena, as declaring the railways that we address as
and it is not stopping yet. These investments our state policy since 2003 as the priority
showed their effects in the increase of sector after these 60 years. We approached
Turkey’s social and economical standards. the projects of building High Speed Train
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