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The Otoyol (Plural: Otoyollar) is the national network of controlled-access highways in Turkey. The term Otoyol translates to motorway while the literal meaning is auto-route. The Otoyol was first opened in 1973. As of December 2023, there are 3,726 km of otoyol in service, the network passes through 28 provinces out of 81 in Turkey. [3]
Motorways are controlled-access highways that are officially named Otoyol. But it is not uncommon for people in Turkey to call them Otoban (referring to Autobahn) as this types of roads entered popular culture by the means of Turks in Germany. These roads depend on the General Directorate of Highways except those that are financed with a BOT model.
Otoyol routes in Turkey follow a regional based two-digit numbering system. All routes have the prefix O on all signage and maps. Motorways that start in the Marmara Region are all single digit. Motorways that start in The Central Anatolia Region have a first digit of two.
This is a list of highways or other major roads around the world. International highways are listed first; after that, roads are listed by continent, and then by country. International highways are listed first; after that, roads are listed by continent, and then by country.
Turkish Otoyol network map There are three types of intercity roads in Turkey: – The first is the historical and free road network called State roads ( Devlet Yolları ) that are completely under the responsibility of the General Directorate of Highways except for urban sections (like the sections falling within the inner part of ring roads ...
Otoyol 21A, abbreviated as O-21A, is a 32 km (20 mi) long auxiliary otoyol connecting the D.330 and D.750 to the O-21. The motorway was opened in 1992 as a connecting route to Konya and passes through mostly uninhabited rural land.
Otoyol 54 (English: Motorway 54), named Gaziantep Beltway (Turkish: Gaziantep Çevreyolu) and abbreviated as O-54, is a 35 km (22 mi) long otoyol in Gaziantep, Turkey. The motorway serves as a beltway around the city of Gaziantep and connects to the O-52. The motorway was opened on 19 January 2013. [1]
Otoyol 50 (English: Motorway 50), abbreviated as O-50, aka Adana Çevreyolu (English: Adana Beltway), was the former designation for the 22 km (14 mi) long motorway passing through the city of Adana, Turkey. In the 2014 the KGM resigned the section of motorway west of the Seyhan River as the O-51 and the section west of the Seyhan River as O-52 ...