Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu announced that there have been significant developments in Diyarbakır's transportation infrastructure and investments have been made for the future.
Stating that they have made very important investments for the development of Diyarbakır in other transportation modes such as air and railway, Uraloğlu said: 100 kilometers between Diyarbakır and Kurtalan, 40 kilometers between Diyarbakır and Batman, 30 kilometers between Malatya and Diyarbakır, 22 kilometers between Yolçatı and Diyarbakır and Gezin and Sallar. He also underlined that they renewed the entire railway network of Diyarbakır, including
Stating that they included Diyarbakır Organized Industrial Zone in the railway network by making a junction line, Uraloğlu also announced that the study studies of the Elazığ-Diyarbakır High Speed Train project, which will connect Diyarbakır to Elazığ at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, are continuing. Uraloğlu said, “In the future projection, this line will be connected to the Malatya-Çetinkaya-Sivas line via Elazığ and its integration into the railway network in the east-west part of our country will be ensured. Thus, Diyarbakır's Ankara and Istanbul high-speed train connection will be made. We are continuing our project work to transform the railway line, which is currently a single line, into a double line in the Ergani-Leylek-Diyarbakır-Bozdemir section, which has a length of 70 km. "With this project, which is connected to the existing station in Ergani, we will greatly increase the conventional line capacity between Bozdemir-Diyarbakır-Ergani," he said.