Turkey reveals the direct path of development with Iraq on this date, 19 SEPT

 Mawazine News – Follow-up

Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Oraloglu, said that the plans for the development road project with Iraq are nearing completion, and that the implementation of the project is expected to start in 2025.
Turkey announces this in statements made on Wednesday to Anadolu Agency

The “Development Road” project is a land and railway road that extends from Iraq to Turkey and its ports, measuring 1,200 kilometers inside Iraq, and aims to transport goods between Europe and the Gulf countries, especially Qatar and the UAE.

Uraloglu explained that the first phase of the FAO port built by Iraq in Basra governorate as part of the Development Road project will be operated next year.
“Starting from there, the railway and the 1,200-kilometer-long highway will enter Turkey via a new border gate in the Ufakoy area, which is 15-20 kilometers west of the Khabur crossing (with Iraq),” he said.

“This is a line that will extend from there to the provinces of Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep, Karman, Eskişehir and Istanbul to the Kapi Kol Gate with Bulgaria,” he added.

Uraloglu pointed out that Qatar and the United Arab Emirates participated in the project thanks to the intensive efforts of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this regard.
He pointed out that the ministries and institutions concerned with the project are currently studying the possibilities of financing the project.
Regarding the Zangazor corridor linking Azerbaijan to the Nakhjavan Autonomous Region and Turkey, Uraloglu said: “We have cooperation with Azerbaijan on the corridor, and I can say that the implementation of the project on the Azerbaijani side has been largely completed.”
As part of the ceasefire agreement that effectively ended a 44-day war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Karabakh region, Armenia agreed to open a land transport corridor between Azerbaijan and the Nakhjan Autonomous Region.
To date, Armenia has refrained from implementing the agreement, citing various arguments.

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