Lapseki

Officials have placed the 67th deck of all 87 decks of the Çanakkale Bridge, aiming to finish joining the bridge road that will connect the European and the Asian sides of the strait by the end of September.

The bridge, nicknamed "neckband of Çanakkale Strait," will be opened to public service on the 107th anniversary of the Çanakkale Victory on March 18, 2022.

Work is underway to uncover a colossal mosaic, which was found during an illegal excavation in the Lapseki district of the northwestern province of Çanakkale in May and evaluated as a 1,500-year-old artifact. The 120-square-meter mosaic dates back to the late Roman and early Byzantine periods.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has said it is providing a 40 million euro loan to finance the construction, development and operation of two mines in northwestern Turkey - the Lapseki mine in the Çanakkale province and the Ivrindi mine in the Balıkesir province. 

The groundbreaking ceremony for the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge was taken place on March 18, the 102nd anniversary of the Çanakkale War. 

Turkey marks what it calls the Çanakkale War - known in English as the Battle of Gallipoli - every year on March 18, when Ottoman forces repelled an Allied World War I assault on the Dardanelles in 1915. 

The groundbreaking ceremony for the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge is slated to take place on March 18, the 102nd anniversary of the Çanakkale War. 

Turkey marks what it calls the Çanakkale War - known in English as the Battle of Gallipoli - every year on March 18, when Ottoman forces repelled an Allied World War I assault on the Dardanelles in 1915. 

A Turkish-Korean consortium has been invited to sign a contract after winning the tender of the planned 1915 Çanakkale Bridge to be built over the Dardanelles Strait, a top Turkish official said Feb. 11. 

Turkey's highways authority has received bids from four international consortiums to build, operate, and maintain a new 10 billion-Turkish Lira ($2.61 billion) suspension bridge over the Dardanelles Strait, the authority said Jan. 26.

A total of 24 companies have taken specifications for Turkey's 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, planned to be completed and opened in 1923, Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan has said.

Four of the companies are from Japan, three are from China, two are from South Korea and one is from Italy, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Jan. 18.