Turkey’s rail network has grown to 13,919 kilometres over the past 24 years, with 2,251 kilometres of high-speed line built from scratch.
The government says Turkey now ranked sixth in Europe and eighth in the world for high-speed rail operations, with 114 million passengers carried on high-speed services to date.
The network has expanded from 10,948 kilometres to its current 13,919 kilometres.
Beyond new construction, the country’s existing rail infrastructure had also undergone comprehensive renewal, with 61% of lines now signalled and more than half electrified, bringing the network up to what he called world standards.
New high-speed and conventional rail projects remain under way across the country, he said, including the Ankara-İzmir, Halkalı-Kapıkule, Bandırma-Bursa-Yenişehir-Osmaneli, Mersin-Adana-Osmaniye-Gaziantep, Yerköy-Kayseri, Kırıkkale-Çorum and Karaman-Ulukışla lines.