Bridge and highway privatization step by AKP: 2 Bosphorus bridges and 8 highways are sold
Edirne-İstanbul-Ankara, Pozantı-Tarsus-Mersin otoyolları ve Boğaziçi ile Fatih Sultan Mehmet köprülerinin de aralarında bulunduğu varlıklar özelleştirme kapsamına alındı.
Quick Look
- The AKP government took official steps for the privatization of 2 Bosphorus bridges and 8 highways.
- According to the decision published in the Official Gazette, the operating rights of the assets will be transferred or leased.
- CHP's Deniz Yavuzyılmaz reacted to the decision.
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Why It Matters
AKP iktidarı döneminde kamuya ait birçok varlık özelleştirildi.
The AKP government, which has carried out approximately 90 percent of the privatizations in Turkey's history by disposing of public assets since coming to power in 2002, has also officially taken steps to privatize bridges and highways.
With the decision published in the Official Gazette with the signature of AKP President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, two more highways were included in the privatization program along with the bridges and highways included in the program in 2010.
Accordingly, it was decided to privatize the Edirne-Istanbul-Ankara, Pozantı-Tarsus-Mersin, Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep, Toprakkale-İskenderun Motorways and the Bosphorus and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridges, as well as the section between Çağlayan Junction and Yenişehir Junction of the Niğde-Pozantı Motorway, Gaziantep Ring Motorway and Bursa Ring Motorway, which were included in the privatization program in today's Official Gazette.
In the decision, it was stated that granting the right to operate the bridges and highways in question as a whole or in separate groups, leasing, establishment of non-real rights of ownership, right of income sharing and one or more of other legal disposal methods appropriate to the requirements of the work will be applied together.
"THIS IS NAMED: SELLING Türkiye'S FUTURE"
Reacting to the decision, CHP Zonguldak Deputy Deniz Yavuzyılmaz wrote the following on her social media account:
"The total profit of 2 Bosphorus Bridges and 8 motorways operated by the state for a fee in 2025 is 600 Million Dollars, and the total profit for 30 years is 18 Billion Dollars! 871 Billion 920 Million Liras at the current exchange rate! Privatizing these bridges, highways and surrounding highways, the cost of which was paid years ago with citizens' taxes and operated by the state with high profits, is a betrayal to the citizens. The companies that will operate these roads through privatization will keep vehicles for 30 years." "They will raise the toll fees one after another. This is selling Turkey's future! Give up this privatization decision immediately!"
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Köprü ve otoyollar için ihale süreci başlatılacak.
Very likely · Within months
Open Questions
- Özelleştirme ihalesi ne zaman yapılacak?
- Geçiş ücretleri nasıl etkilenecek?
