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The Bosphorus Bridge (Turkish: Boğaziçi Köprüsü), known officially as the 15 July Martyrs Bridge (Turkish: 15 Temmuz Şehitler Köprüsü) and colloquially as the First Bridge (Turkish: Birinci Köprü), is the oldest and southernmost of the three suspension bridges spanning the Bosphorus strait (Turkish: Boğaziçi) in Istanbul, Turkey, thus connecting Europe and Asia (alongside the ...
The Bosphorus Bridge (also known as The First Bridge), is one of two suspension bridges that cross the Bosphorus. By the 1950s, İstanbul’s rapidly growing population and heightened traffic between the Asian and European sides made this bridge a necessity. Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes initiated the bridge’s realization in 1960 but ...
The third and most recent bridge, the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, is 2,164 m (7,100 ft) long and was completed in 2016. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] It is located near the northern end of the Bosporus, between the villages of Garipçe on the European side and Poyrazköy on the Asian side, [ 46 ] as part of the " Northern Marmara Motorway ", integrated into the ...
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The bridges spanning the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey are: Bosphorus Bridge, also called the First Bosphorus Bridge, a suspension bridge; Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, also known as the Second Bosphorus Bridge, a suspension bridge; Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, also known as the Third Bosphorus Bridge, a suspension bridge