World's longest suspension bridge put into service

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the world's longest suspension bridge over the Dardanelles strait in northwestern Turkey. The bridge reduces travel time between Asia and Europe to six minutes. With a 2,023-meter (6,637 feet) span between its towers, the "1915 Canakkale Bridge" is now the world's longest suspension bridge. Costing 2.5 billion euros ($2.76 billion), it will generate 5.3 billion euros in economic output, create 118,000 jobs and generate 2.4 billion euros in revenue for Turkey. The bridge is expected to facilitate 3.5 million vehicles annually.

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[johnpremberg]

Congratulations to Turkey and to the Turkish-Korean companies on this wonderful achievement.

[urimtefiki]

Congratulations this is great achievement.

[redsky]

Long lasting friendship between South Korea and Turkey..We are blood-shared friend.

[黃龍황룡루시아골드]

형제여 반갑습니다^^ 터키와 한국(turkey =korea)은 피를 나눈 형제 입니다~
We love you too brother~

[Sailgong]

Wow, South Korea is killing it with construction projects. From Burj Khalifa, marina bay sands, petronas towers, taipei 101, and now this, the worlds longest bridge.

[Kaan_is_myname]

I am Turk and we know it was south Korea that helped the build of the bridge. Even South Korean flags were there. Some said Chinese company but I don't know about it. Can anyone send me a link ? We know it as a Turkish-Korean partnership ( mainly, other countries such as Australia contributed as well but it is side work mostly)

[sohrabforhad]

Congratulations Turkey from Bangladesh 🇧🇩💞🇹🇷

[snagfalarski]

beautiful feat of engineering, just curious how it will deal with the earths shifting plates that overlap there

[Kaan_is_myname]

am Turk and we know it was south Korea that helped the build of the bridge. Even South Korean flags were there. Some said Chinese company in comments but I don't know about it. Can anyone send me a link ? We know it as a Turkish-Korean partnership ( mainly, other countries such as Australia contributed as well but it is side work mostly. Still we appreciate their help)

[Manish-udsl]

Where are endians? I thought they became superpower after japan's decision to invest in endia😅

[johnoscar]

This bridge is to contract Turkish and S.Korean companies together as joint ventures; however, financial service or investments may come many different financing companies it's the two companies that in charge and delivery to services and they are rightfully own to operate next 15 or 20 years to pay back the loans and make profit and maintain after they will surrender all the rights and operations to Turkish authorities or they may go for new bits for term contract they will pay Government of the Turkey for contract fees

[forexsavants]

Bravo Turkey! Building bridges instead of bombing them! Wise man!