1915 Çanakkale Bridge
Also known as Çanakkale Suspension Bridge, Çanakkale 1915 Bridge, Dardanelles Bridge
road suspension bridge in Turkey
Key facts
- Carries
- 6 lanes of O-6 , Maintenance walkways on each side
- Crosses
- Dardanelles
- Locale
- Çanakkale Province , Turkey
- Official name
- 1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü
- Website
- 1915canakkale .com /en-us
- Design
- Suspension
- Total length
- 4,608 m (15,118 ft)
- Width
- 45.06 m (148 ft)
- Height
- 334 m (1,096 ft)
- Longest span
- 2,023 m (6,637 ft)
- Clearance below
- 70 m (230 ft)
- Designer
- COWI A/S and PEC (Pyunghwa Engineering Consultants)
Article
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge (Turkish: 1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü) is a road suspension bridge in the province of Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey, first opened on 18 March 2022. Situated just southwest of the coastal towns of Lapseki and Gelibolu, the bridge spans the Dardanelles, about ten kilometres (six miles) west of the Sea of Marmara. The bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world; with a main span of 2,023 metres (2.023 kilometres; 1.257 miles), the bridge surpasses the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (1998) in Japan by 32 metres (105 feet).
The bridge was officially opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2022 after roughly five years of construction. It is the centrepiece of the planned 321-kilometre-long (199 mi) US$2.8 billion O-6 motorway, which will connect the O-3 and O-7 motorways in East Thrace with the O-5 motorway in Anatolia. The year "1915" in the official Turkish name honours an important Ottoman victory in the Gallipoli campaign comprising an unsuccessful Entente naval attack followed by invasions of the Gallipoli peninsula by the forces of Australia, New Zealand, France, and Great Britain, on 25 April 1915 and a second in August; the Entente land forces failed to make significant progress and were evacuated at the end of that year.