TR Turkey expects to lay ground for Kanal Istanbul project in summer

[GoatsMilk]

I can not believe most of you are ready to sacrifice Dolmabahce to save few billion dollars. You would turn the internet into hell (I would too) if government decided to build smth that will bring billions of dollars of cash to Turkiye in the place of Dolmabahce Palace. But you're sacrificing it for much less money. Why ???

Istanbul people already buried themselves alive by choosing İmamoğlu. That guy doesn't do anything to get the city ready for an earthquake. Istanbul is already buried but I won't let your anti-AKP thoughts to get Dolmabahce from us too. Bosphorus is too risky to let big ships get into. Go google it before saying it's nonesense. You'll see crashes and ships out of control everywhere. Because it happens too frequently!!

Does building a new canal mean we can stop them using the current passage? Is it part of that secret hundred year treaty that comes to an end? And once it comes to an end we can even extract the trillions of dollars of oil and gas we have?

 

[Turkic]

Does building a new canal mean we can stop them using the current passage?

Yes, to be exact. There are plenty of ways to stop them.

 

[Scott Summers]

Does building a new canal mean we can stop them using the current passage? Is it part of that secret hundred year treaty that comes to an end? And once it comes to an end we can even extract the trillions of dollars of oil and gas we have?

You can make the Bosporus narrower with your own militairy or police vessels and create traffic, you can rise the price to skyrockets, you can install naval checkpoints to delay shipment, you can hold naval excercises every week in the straits, you can sunk some old vessels to endanger traffic for security reasons etc.

List of maritime incidents in the Turkish Straits - Wikipedia

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2 cargo ships collide in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait

ISTANBUL, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Two cargo ships collided on Thursday in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, the local NTV broadcaster reported.

www.thestar.com.my

 

[boredaf]

I can not believe most of you are ready to sacrifice Dolmabahce to save few billion dollars. You would turn the internet into hell (I would too) if government decided to build smth that will bring billions of dollars of cash to Turkiye in the place of Dolmabahce Palace. But you're sacrificing it for much less money. Why ???

Istanbul people already buried themselves alive by choosing İmamoğlu. That guy doesn't do anything to get the city ready for an earthquake. Istanbul is already buried but I won't let your anti-AKP thoughts to get Dolmabahce from us too. Bosphorus is too risky to let big ships get into. Go google it before saying it's nonesense. You'll see crashes and ships out of control everywhere. Because it happens too frequently!!

How on earth anyone is sacrificing Dolmabahçe Palace exactly? You're creating a fake scenario in your head and using it to justify multi billion nonsensical project that's going to ruin hundreds of kms of land and ground water that we desperately need. All for what? Protect buildings?

How bloody short sighted are you? It isn't "anti-Akp" it is pro logic and reason.

 

[Turkic]

How on earth anyone is sacrificing Dolmabahçe Palace exactly? You're creating a fake scenario in your head and using it to justify multi billion nonsensical project that's going to ruin hundreds of kms of land and ground water that we desperately need. All for what? Protect buildings?

How bloody short sighted are you? It isn't "anti-Akp" it is pro logic and reason.

So I am the short sighted one here now ?

That project will bring billions in long term and it's not going to waste any land or ground water. There will be a new Canal there. This is a megaproject that will create jobs for thousands of people for years. New bridges, new residential areas, public buildings such as hospitals, shopping malls and such. Because people will want to live with it's sight. Just like the Bosphorus. It will create new touristic opportunities. This canal will make a part of Istanbul an island (kinda). This will make it as prestigious as Manhattan. This canal will pay most of it's cost back in long term even if you ignore shipping incomes.

That's not pro-logic or not any type of shitty logic you're making. It's just being old-minded. There's a reason this project was in talks for decades. You think every president or other high-grades were wrong considering this project ? Or are you the one wrong ? I think the answer is obvious since the very first president to have the opportunity to start this project started it.

 

[boredaf]

That project will bring billions in long term and it's not going to waste any land or ground water. There will be a new Canal there. This is a megaproject that will create jobs for thousands of people for years. New bridges, new residential areas, public buildings such as hospitals, shopping malls and such. Because people will want to live with it's sight. Just like the Bosphorus. It will create new touristic opportunities. This canal will make a part of Istanbul an island (kinda). This will make it as prestigious as Manhattan. This canal will pay most of it's cost back in long term even if you ignore shipping incomes.

People already have trouble buying homes but there are going to more homes, hospitals are already short staffed but there is going to be more hospitals. We have trouble keeping foreign tourist numbers up, countless hotels and resorts failed in recent years but this one canal is going to create enough to justify the cost.

And what on earth "being an island" has anything to do with being "as prestigious as Manhattan"? It'll pay for itself? Where is your proof or source for that claim? It might generate some revenue just as the third bridge or Istanbul Airport makes money because they force every plane in Turkey to land there first or force every bus to cross the bridge. Creating some low paying construction jobs with few high paid overseer jobs will not make up for what will be wasted.

 

[Turkic]

People already have trouble buying homes but there are going to more homes

Then show me a house without an owner ? People living in rent doesn't mean it has no owner.

hospitals are already short staffed but there is going to be more hospitals.

Number of doctors are increasing exponentially. There are 4 times the med students compared to 20 years ago. There is no short staffed situation in hospitals in terms of doctors but there is in terms of nurses. They're building hospitals as med students gradaute. Nurses are forcing interns to do their job so nurse count is not important at all.

countless hotels and resorts failed in recent years but this one canal is going to create enough to justify the cost.

Just a matter of planning

And what on earth "being an island" has anything to do with being "as prestigious as Manhattan"? It'll pay for itself? Where is your proof or source for that claim?

Just my thought, no claim. Turkiye has a rising prestige to tourists.

It might generate some revenue just as the third bridge or Istanbul Airport makes money because they force every plane in Turkey to land there first or force every bus to cross the bridge. Creating some low paying construction jobs with few high paid overseer jobs will not make up for what will be wasted.

You don't have source for this claim either.

I swear, you sound like Melih Gökçek with his insane claims about making Ankara the Vienna of Anatolia or some shite. Nothing but waste to chase vain dreams of grandeur that is pointless.

There's no insane claims in what I said. Canal will pay it's cost back in long term in any way.

 

[Sanchez]

it's not going to waste any land or ground water. There will be a new Canal there

Seawater and freshwater are coincidentally not the same thing. It is abject truth that the canal will kill Küçükçekmece lagoon and the Sazlıdere dam. Sazlıdere dam is Istanbul's second largest freshwater reservoir after Ömerli.

Because people will want to live with it's sight. Just like the Bosphorus. It will create new touristic opportunities

Bosphorus is a natural beauty of nature. I see two points clashing here. 1, that we will put all the dangerous filthy tanker traffic to the new canal. 2, people will want to live next to these filthy and dangerous ships.

This canal will make a part of Istanbul an island

I'm perplexed why this is a good thing. One thing this will surely effect is that one half of our city with nearly 10 million residents in it will now be living in an island. A large Istanbul earthquake will happen. This is not an if but when. When that earthquake happens our economy will shrink by at least 5-10 percent overnight, possibly hundreds of thousands may die and millions of people will be stuck in an island if the earthquake happens after the canal project concludes. Sending help to millions of people at that scale is a nightmare scenario in the best circumstances, and this canal would simply create bottlenecks in the form of bridges that may or may not be operational after such an earthquake.

Istanbul people already buried themselves alive by choosing İmamoğlu. That guy doesn't do anything to get the city ready for an earthquake

You said so yourself, no? Istanbul is already buried for future reference by that earthquake that will come, but we should build a canal to make saving lives and cleanup even harder than it needs to be. If the bad scenario happens and Istanbul is hit bad, conditions will be so bad that emergency vehicles will need to traverse the Marmara sea via Çanakkale to come to European Istanbul from Anatolia.

This will make it as prestigious as Manhattan

I don't think you know what prestige means.

You think every president or other high-grades were wrong considering this project ?

Yes, Ecevit's "megaproject" was dumb as well, he had stated project wouldn't need that big of an investment.

 

[Turkic]

Seawater and freshwater are coincidentally not the same thing.

I didn't say it is.

I don't think you know what prestige means.

You have no idea what do I know or not. You're trying to win the argument by insulting my knowledge.

I never hit you until you do. I talk about the topic but you always try to hit me. Nice way to show there is no logical way left to support your thoughts. Only fools hit the person instead of the topic. And that's why I'm not answering your other statements. No time to fool around with fools.

I always respected your thoughts on this forum. Expecting the same from you too.

 

[boredaf]

And you sound like Iranian internet trolls who's only job is to attack turkish defence industry.

Not only this project has nothing to do with our defence industry, but also trying to call me names is not your bloody place. I would give you the response you deserve but I have more respect for this forum then you do.

You call people akp haters for objecting to this project for very logical reasons yet you're so far down in their propaganda hole that you just make weird reasons and half arsed platitudes to defend it.

 

[AlperTunga]

So I am the short sighted one here now ?

That project will bring billions in long term and it's not going to waste any land or ground water. There will be a new Canal there. This is a megaproject that will create jobs for thousands of people for years. New bridges, new residential areas, public buildings such as hospitals, shopping malls and such. Because people will want to live with it's sight. Just like the Bosphorus. It will create new touristic opportunities. This canal will make a part of Istanbul an island (kinda). This will make it as prestigious as Manhattan. This canal will pay most of it's cost back in long term even if you ignore shipping incomes.

That's not pro-logic or not any type of shitty logic you're making. It's just being old-minded. There's a reason this project was in talks for decades. You think every president or other high-grades were wrong considering this project ? Or are you the one wrong ? I think the answer is obvious since the very first president to have the opportunity to start this project started it.

We dont need to invest in new houses or shopping malls. We should invest our money in high technology and industrial projects. Not for the profit of some constructors close to AKP. Now if we are not investing our own money and not able to attract foreign investment for value added projects then to create some employment, the canal project can be thought of. Still I‘d not do it as it has some other disadvantages also including defense aspects.