Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke at the ceremony of Services Exporters and 2018 HIB Awards at İstanbul Congress Center. Erdogan made a statement on the agenda of the Kanal İstanbul, "We will start the tender in the coming weeks. Kanal İstanbul has many features. There will be rights to gain for Türkiye. A tanker in front of Selimiye was burned for more than 7 months. Once with Kanal İstanbul, these threats will almost disappear, and will have a serious return to our country. All of these studies have been done, descent from the Black Sea to the Marmara, a different feature will take over the Kanal İstanbul.

Statement on Kanal İstanbul

Continuity is essential in the State. I hope we are doing the tender in the coming weeks. Kanal İstanbul has many features. There will be rights to gain for Türkiye. A tanker in front of Selimiye was burned for more than 7 months.

Kanal İstanbul has many features. There will be rights to gain for Türkiye. A tanker in front of Selimiye was burned for more than 7 months. Once with Kanal İstanbul, these threats will almost disappear, and will have a serious return to our country. All of these studies have been done, descent from the Black Sea to the Marmara, a different feature will take over the Kanal İstanbul.