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With Ovit Mountain Tunnel, the most important Bayburt-Erzurum Highway, has been laid. With the
ring of Blacksea-Southeast Sevgi Yolu that will tunnel which will bring down the impassable Kackar
connect Rize-Ispir-Erzurum-Mardin-Sanliurfa and Mountains between Blacksea and East Anatolia,
Gaziantep will be completed. Kop Passageway which as one of the highest and
compelling passageways of Turkey with its altitude
THE NIGHTMARE OF THE DRIVERS IN of 2 thousand 400 meters will be reduced to 2
ZORLU SABUNCUBELİ IS COMING TO AN END thousand meters.

Sabuncubeli, which is named as Scary THE FOUNDATION OF SALMANKAŞ
Sabuncubeli Passageway by Evliya Celebi and TUNNEL HAS BEEN LAID
which is the nightmare of the drivers, is being
overcome by a tunnel. In the context of the Project, Salmankas passageway which is one of the
the length of the road is being reduced by removing most important arterials that will connect Turkey
the ramps on the Izmir-Manisa highway; a safe and from North to South, and that constitutes the most
comfortable travel opportunity is being provided important passage of Araklı-Dagbasi Ugrak Road
to the passengers by improving the standard of that is the alternative of the Historical Silk Road
the road. With Sabuncubeli Tunnel, the distance on the Trabzon-Gumushane-Bayburt-Erzurum
between İzmir and Manisa is being reduced to 15 and İran route, is being crossed by tunnels. With
minutes. the completion of the tunnels, the route between
Trabzon and Bayburt will be reduced 16 kilometers
İZMİR WILL BREATHE in length and the highway travel between these
provinces that takes 3 hours will be reduced to 1.5
With the Konak Tunnel whose foundation has hours.
been laid on 23rd of September, 2011, Izmir’s inner-
city traffic will breathe. With the tunnel that will be POZANTİ MOTORWAY HAS BEEN OPENED
constructed between Konak Square and Yesildere
Street; Izmir City Passage will be completed. With 120 kilometer long Kemerhisar- Pozanti
the Project starting from Konak Koprulu Junction, Motorway, which is the most important ring of Asia-
a passageway of 570 meters of double tube and 2 Europe Highway Corridor that connects Middle
bridges will be constructed. East to Europe and Mediterranean & Southeast to
Anatolia has been opened.
KOP PASSAGEWAY WILL BE REDUCED
TO 2 THOUSAND METERS BOZÜYÜK-MEKECE-ADAPAZARI
DIVIDED ROAD
The foundation of Kop Mountain Tunnel,
which is located on an important passage point 134 kilometer long Bozuyuk-Mekece-Adapazari
that connects Blacksea to South and east on the Divided Road which is the heart of Istanbul-

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