Istanbul-Thessaloniki high-speed train works will start this year

Istanbul-Thessaloniki high-speed train work will start this year: Transportation Minister Yıldırım, we will start the construction of high-speed trains from Istanbul to Edirne this year. If the Greek side starts the work, the project will be completed in a few years.
Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, attended the Turkish Council's Ministers of Transport Meeting. Yildirim, the night before the gala dinner Prime Minister Davutoglu, Turkey-Greece friendship "We are planning high-speed railway between Thessaloniki and Istanbul," he said reminded by the words: "We will start this year the construction of high-speed train from Istanbul to Edirne. This is an important part of the mentioned project. The mentioned project will be realized when it is continued in Greece by using the European Union Pre-Association Participation Funds. We have already reached a certain stage. Likewise, if the Greek side starts these works, I hope this project will be completed in a few years. And so this line comes into play as an indicator of Turkish-Greek friendship. ”
No wonder.
"3. Minister Yıldırım said that we do not make the bridge from the state budget, it has a cost. ”He said that there is nothing to be surprised or misled.
Transition to Europe with the 3rd Bridge
Stating that the region up to the west of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and even China will become more important in terms of transportation, trade and tourism in the future, we will complete the “Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Line Project, as of the end of 2016. we will have run the trains. A train departing from China will pass Caspian, Baku-Tbilisi-Kars, to Anatolian lands, and from Marmaray to the Balkans and west of Europe, he said.