
President Erdoğan reacted to the opposition by stating that the high-speed train line shortened the travel time at the opening ceremony in Babaeski.
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The Halkalı-Kapıkule High Speed Train Line project aims to strengthen Türkiye's European railway connection.
The Çerkezköy-Kapıkule stage of the Halkalı-Kapıkule High Speed Train Line is put into service. The opening ceremony, attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, takes place in Babaeski. Erdoğan is giving a speech here.
Highlights from President Erdoğan's speech are as follows:
- We are extending our high-speed train network from Çerkezköy to Kapıkule. I would like to express this here with pleasure. With the commissioning of our project, a new era will begin in which we will see its effects in a wide area. Travel time between Halkalı-Kapıkule will decrease from 4 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes. Freight transportation time will decrease from 8 hours 30 minutes to 3 hours 30 minutes. The capacity of the railway line will approximately quadruple.
- We expect the annual passenger capacity to increase to 3 million and the cargo capacity to 9.5 million tons. This means; Transportation will be faster, logistics will be stronger, travel time will be reduced. As a result, production, exports, employment, trade and tourism will increase. Our project will make significant contributions to the Turkish economy.
- I hope this important project will be beneficial. One of the areas where we have made progress in Türkiye in 24 years is our transportation investments. During our rule, the current value of our transportation investments increased to 354 billion dollars. The share of railways in this is 80 billion dollars.
CRITICISMS TO THE OPPOSITION
- There is no project on their agenda. Apart from promises that even they do not believe in, they have no suggestions that will solve the nation's problems. If there is, otherwise it's a lie. They are not a political party, they are a center for producing slander, a cauldron of gossip. They only seek to sling mud and slander. With the tactics they learned from the FETO scoundrels, they attack us regardless of what is given to them, without checking whether it is right or wrong. No one should be sorry; They are up to their necks in corruption and immorality.
"THIS IS NOT POLITICS"
- This is not called politics or opposition. You will answer for your money towers before you speak ill of others. You will pay for the baklava boxes. You will first have to answer for the municipalities you turned into a barren land. We do not give credit to this unprincipled, disgraceful policy.
"THE ONE WHO REACHES THE RIGHTS OF THE NATION WILL FIND US AGAINST THEM"
- I've said it many times; I say it again. Whoever lays his hands on the rights and trusts of the nation will find us in front of him. It controls all institutions of the state, including its judiciary, police and finance. Those who exceed the limits of law also exceed the limits of morality, we have nothing to do with them.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the project, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said, "As both Türkiye and the European Union, we have put in serious time, effort and effort at all levels." he said.
Explaining that the line will connect both continents and Türkiye and the European Union, Uraloğlu said, "We will continue to work together with the European Union to further our cooperation in this project." he said.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Railway cooperation with the European Union will continue.
Very likely · Within months
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