52-kilometer section of the Çeşmeli-Kızkalesi Highway opens to traffic

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that the 52-kilometer Çeşmeli-Kızkalesi section of the Çeşmeli-Erdemli-Silifke-Taşucu Highway will open to traffic as of 00:01 on the night connecting October 18 to October 19, 2026.

With the opening of the completed highway section, the travel time, which reaches up to 2.5 hours especially in the summer months, will drop to 18 minutes. In the project, which has a total length of 52 kilometers consisting of 41 kilometers of highway and 11 kilometers of connection roads, 10 trumpet interchanges, 7 tunnels, and 5 viaducts were constructed.

Within the scope of the project, it is targeted to achieve a total annual savings of 3.02 billion liras, including 2.68 billion liras from time and 340 million liras from fuel, and to reduce carbon emissions by 17 thousand tons per year. Minister Uraloğlu stated that the official opening of the project will be held at a later date with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.