Istanbul New Airport

The Istanbul International Airport ( working name ) is a scheduled international passenger airport in the Turkish city of Istanbul. The new building is to start with a total of six runways in 2014 in the north of Istanbul and be completed in 2020. It was originally planned, the 2020 Olympic Games to bring into the country.

Construction

With 150 million annual passengers is to around seven billion euro project, be with the six start and runways in an area of ​​approximately 9,000 hectares, the world's largest airport and the Hartsfield -Jackson Atlanta International Airport is currently the largest airport in the world, peel off. According to the then Transport Minister Binali Yildirim the first operation for 2017 was planned with about 90 million passengers. As the site was called by Binali Yildirim a north Istanbul mine area located between the villages of Yeniköy and Akpınar around 50 kilometers from the center of Istanbul.

In the immediate vicinity of the new airport, the Turkish government planned also a new city in which, among other things, the Olympic Games to be held in 2020. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of construction for the year 2014.

Criticism

According to newspaper reports, there are currently already considerable resistance of the people against the planned expropriation of land and environmental concerns due to the clearing of forests in the vicinity of the construction area on the Black Sea coast.

The Turkish journalist and aviation expert Uğur Cebeci sees the question of cost critical: He expects more than ten billion euros. Even on the question of whether such a large investment worth at all, opinions are divided. In a report of the Austrian financial company "Erste Bank" about the Turkish airline industry is pointed out that the removal of the planned airport to the city constituted a risk.