Divided the Turkish scientists. Divided Turkish public opinion. Most importantly, however, it was the subject of a long -standing fierce judicial confrontation between him and him. It now seems to be central to the prosecution of the prisoner of the Metropolitan Municipality, who is being tried these days for corruption cases. The reason for Istanbul (“Kanal İstanbul”), the grand Erdoganic design plan of artificial waterway, 40 kilometers long, 150 meters wide and 25 meters deep, connecting the Marmara Sea, dividing the European side of the European side.
Erdogan Determined for Mammoth Canal
A project that the Turkish president announced in 2011 and is determined to implement opposition lawsuits and despite the reactions of environmentalists and seismology teachers. This is confirmed by the 52 new arrests on April 26, with the aim of high -ranking officials of the Municipality of Constantinople who insist, despite the last month’s government “pogrom”, to prevent the implementation of the project. It is no coincidence that the Istanbul General Prosecutor’s Office launched a new arrest bar one day after the Constantinople Water and Sewerage Service (which belongs to the Metropolitan Municipality of Constantinople) described the recent launch of 25,000 housing in the area. by their demolition. The Mammoth project “Kanal İstanbul” also includes the construction of ports, artificial islands and houses along the canal, threatening to demolish them.
Anyone who delay the project is captured
Among other things, the Deputy Secretary General of the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul, Arif Alpai, the General Manager of the Constantinople Water and Sewerage Service and Safakas Basa and the Deputy Director General of the Director -General and the Director General of the Communist Party, and the Director General of the Metropolitan Municipality of Constantinople, were arrested. It should be noted that from the prison of Silivri, where he was being held, Imamoglu reacted, stressing that the Turkish president “took advantage” of his imprisonment to restart a project “that will harm Constantinople”.
The construction of the canal and the arrest of Imamoglou
“It is clear that the government wants to turn the mayor’s imprisonment into an advantage to start and complete the construction of the channel,” Imoglou’s associate Ali Tirali commented on Step. “Suspicious” and the president of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Ozel Ozel, at the last meeting of the party’s parliamentary group at the Turkish National Assembly, linked the cancellation of the Mayor of the City on March 18, and his arrest, 19 March.
The work of Constantinople Canal Construction, the spearhead of the Erdogan election campaign in 2011, entered the “ice” when, as a candidate for the CHP, Ekrem Imamoglu won the municipal elections in 2019. From his first days. “Station” in the Municipal-Conflicting controversy is the lawsuit filed by the Municipality of Constantinople in 2021 against the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, according to which the construction of the canal will “poison” many basins, Danger 1.
The legal dispute between the Municipality of Constantinople and the Ministry lasted for years. Finally, the Court of Constantinople in 2024 rejected the lawsuit.
The Mega Project Erdogan
“The Constantinople Canal is a Mega Project that the Erdogan government has been seeking to build for at least a decade. The basic argument it raises is on the one hand the imperative necessity of a second floating road due to the loaded maritime traffic in the Bosphorus, on the other hand, the advantage of bypassing Montre’s Convention (1936), which restricts shipping to the Bosphorus. This is an alibi. The government’s true goal is to create a new settlement in West Constantinople in order to attract funds from abroad, especially Qatar and the UAE, which will relieve the injured Turkish economy, “Tirali explains. “The canal will have an irreversible negative impact on the ecology of Constantinople, at the same time causing a new population pressure on a city living at the permanent risk of destructive earthquakes. Hence the CHP is strongly opposed to its first announcement, “he adds.
The ecological impact of the canal’s work
“The canal is a work of urban development that will essentially build an additional city of two million inhabitants within the already densely populated and overwhelmed Constantinople. The aim is to significantly increase the value of planned real estate on the coastal front. However, if implemented, it will destroy part of the reserves of the Istanbul groundwater, a water water barrier -even if it is not the most important source -and a unique naturally formed coastal lagoon, “commented the Doctor of Technology. “In addition, serious ecological concerns are raised about the balance of water between the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea, where there is a water exchange phenomenon through the Bosporus. The additional channel will cause faster rejection of the Black Sea water, with a serious ecological impact. “
‘Standard real estate’
In summary, the Canal of Constantinople, Netzati adds, “is part of the well -established real estate factory, with the willing sponsors of Arabs. The Turkish president, with his persistence, abuses his power and state resources for the same benefit, creating an artificial Bosphorus and with him a whole new “island” between the Bosporus and the channel. The prosecution of the Mayor of Constantinople obviously solves his hands. It is truly unmistakable that the Heads of the Istanbul Water and Sewerage Service were imprisoned. The only hope is the recent earthquake. Maybe he stop the government’s surpluses. “
