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Hürriyet Daily News (21 August 2025)

Türkiye will lay the foundation on Aug. 22 for a major railway project in the country’s east that will form a strategic segment of the Zangezur Corridor, a planned key route in the South Caucasus.

The Kars-Iğdır-Aralık-Dilucu Railway Line, stretching 224 kilometers, will serve as a critical link within the Zangezur Corridor that connects Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced.

Designed to carry 5.5 million passengers and 15 million tons of freight annually, the line will also include five tunnels, the minister noted.

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