High speed train project announced for 15 provinces

Director General of Turkish State Railways (TCDD) announced yesterday that high speed train (YHT) projects for 15 provinces will have been completed by 2016, making it available for nearly half of the population to benefit from railway transportation. Talking to reporters during his visit to the project site of the YHT line of Izmir-Ankara, Karaman vowed to construct rail lines in every part of Turkey. Karaman also said that Turkey is the world's eighth and Europe's sixth country to take advantage of high speed train technology.