The Turkish government has completed a huge step in its push to build a high-speed rail line that will connect to the European Union border. According to Railway Supply, Turkey has begun testing a ...

Turkey’s first high-speed rail line opened in 2009. Today, the high-speed train (in Turkish, Yüksek Hizli Tren or YHT) between Istanbul and the political capital, Ankara – a 349-mile journey ...

It comes after Turkey launched the Mesopotamia Express last year. The train departs from the Turkish capital of Ankara, before journeying 1,500km through desert landscapes, snow-capped mountains ...

Having been suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a direct passenger service has been reintroduced between Tehran and Van ...

But one country that’s no so well connected to the rest of the continent, is Turkey. But if you want to get there via train, it’s not so easy. Currently, it takes a staggering 12 hours to ...

Three months after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey, 2.5 million people are still displaced. One of the hardest-hit areas is Iskenderun, Hatay Province, where sleeper trains in a corner of ...

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