ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey held its first tender on Thursday to prepare to build a huge canal on the edge of Istanbul, a Transport Ministry spokesman said, signaling progress on the project despite ...

In September 2010, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was on the phone to a columnist for the Turkish newspaper Sabah when he disclosed an idea for what he called a “crazy project” . The project ...

The construction work for Canal İstanbul started with the groundbreaking of a bridge over the planned canal route on June 26, a decade after Erdoğan announced it as "my crazy project." Meanwhile, ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has revealed the planned route for an ambitious canal in Istanbul that would link the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea — a project President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once ...

According to a recent survey conducted by the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, only 34.1 percent of İstanbulites support the Canal İstanbul project, a planned artificial waterway between the Sea of ...

In Sazlibosna village, along the planned route of the vast Canal Istanbul project, 68-year-old Yasar Demirkaya fidgets with worn prayer beads as he sips tea at a cafe, uncertain about the future.

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) ISTANBUL, June 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Stating that the Canal Istanbul will leave its mark in history as a guarantee of the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of ...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing hard for the grandiose projects that include a new bridge across the Bosphorus, a massive... Istanbul's Mega-Projects: Bigger Is Better, Or A ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan has revived plans to dig a canal on the edge of Istanbul despite opposition from hundreds of petitioners and the city's new mayor against the kind of mega ...