Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu pointed out that they also renovated Diyarbakır Airport and increased its capacity to accommodate 5 million passengers per year and continued his words as follows:
“With the investments we made, passenger traffic, which was 2002 thousand in 211, will exceed 2023 million in 2. Thank God, Diyarbakır has developed a lot and become a completely different city in the last 22 years under the leadership of our President. It became the shining star of Southeastern Anatolia. Transportation and communication investments made in Diyarbakır have a huge share in this development. No one should doubt that; Under the leadership of our President, we will make every effort to achieve the goals we have set for the development of Diyarbakır, the development of Diyarbakır's people and the Turkey Century, as we have done since 2002. Hopefully, we are running for all district mayorships together with Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality in the March 31 local elections. We will implement all the projects we planned together with our brother Mehmet Halis Bilden, our AK Party Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Candidate. He launched 26 projects yesterday. DiyarbakırRay comes first among these. We will implement it together. There is also a flight to Erbil that you requested. We have also started a study on it. We are planning to start Erbim flights this month. “Good luck.”