Erdogan takes first step in controversial Istanbul canal project While Ankara claims the project will ease traffic in the Bosphorus, critics warn of dire environmental effects.

The project is a new 45 kilometre shipping canal running just west of Istanbul’s two airports on the outskirts of the city, from the Black Sea in the north to the Marmara Sea in the south.

By laying the first stone of the Sazlidere bridge, one of six viaducts that will cross the Istanbul Canal, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan kicked off on Saturday what he himself calls his ...

For Erdogan’s Istanbul Canal project, critics see few winners The Istanbul Canal would be the jewel in the crown of ‘megaprojects’ launched under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But ...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is pushing ahead with a massive canal project through Istanbul — even though banks are afraid to fund it, and many think it is unnecessary.

Imamoglu's party, the main opposition CHP, said the arrests were to counter its efforts to block the proposed Istanbul canal project, intended to connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara. The ...

The ambitious Canal Istanbul project could displace thousands of people, imperil the city’s tenuous water supply, and impact ocean life, critics say.

The Canal Istanbul project is going to be the city’s largest project, Erdogan said in April 2018. In the same speech, he announced that the construction of the mega project would begin in his ...

Turkey will soon hold a tender for a huge canal on the edge of Istanbul and lay the groundwork for it in the summer, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, advancing a project which has drawn ...

ANKARA, Turkey — 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 ...