The $3 billion new bridge to be built over Istanbul’s Bosphorus will be named after Yavuz Sultan Selim, one of the prominent and notorious sultans in Ottoman history.
The sultan, known as Selim the Grim in English, was famous for his conquests in the eastern world, and Turkey’s contemporary border with what is now Iran was determined following the 1514 Battle of Çaldiran against Sah Ismail of the Safavids.
The 59-meter-wide bridge – the widest in the world – will be the third one to connect the Asian and European sides of Istanbul.
The name of the second bridge over the Bosphorus is named after another sultan, Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Mehmed the Conqueror), who conquered the city from the Byzantines on May 29, 1453. Sultan Yavuz was Mehmed’s grandson. The second bridge was built in 1988.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the controversial bridge was held today, on the 560th anniversary of Istanbul’s conquest by the Ottomans, with the attendance of Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The construction of Istanbul’s third bridge on the Bosporus was tendered for last year as part of the north Marmara motorway project’s Odayeri-Pasaköy section. The tender was then awarded to a consortium consisting of the Turkish IC Içtas and the Italian Astaldi that submitted the bid with the shortest term of construction and operation, 10 years two months and 20 days.
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