No one can turn Turkey into their backyard: Erdogan

No one can turn Turkey into their backyard: Erdogan

President Erdogan touts new National Gardens in Istanbul as fulfilling commitment in government's 100-day program

By S.Ahmet Aytac

ANKARA (AA) - Those who tried to dominate Turkey over the last century have been pushed back by the Turkish people, said Turkey’s president on Saturday.

“To those who tried to turn Turkey into their backyard since the Battle of Gallipoli, the War of Independence, and the July 15, 2016 defeated coup, we gave the necessary answer as a nation,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the opening ceremony of the National Gardens in Basaksehir, Istanbul, referring to decisive historic military campaigns and a failed putsch that martyred 251 people.

"One of the commitments in our 100-day performance program was fulfilled today by opening these National Gardens, and the others will be completed one by one," Erdogan added.

"We say that we will build the Istanbul Canal, they say 'We don’t want it,' 'Don’t build it”. We will build it whether you want to or not," he said.

Next year Turkey plans to launch the construction of the Istanbul Canal, an artificial sea-level waterway, and complete it in 2023, according to Turkey’s Transport And Infrastructure Minister Cahit Turhan.

The canal is meant to provide relief to shipping traffic between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, particularly oil tanker traffic passing through the Bosphorus.

The 45-kilometer (nearly 28-mile) canal, which will be built along Istanbul's Kucukcekmece-Sazlidere-Durusu corridor, is to boast a capacity of 160 vessels a day.

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