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Kapıkule

Border crossing on the Turkish side
Border crossing on the Turkish side



Kapıkule is located in Turkey

Kapıkule

Kapıkule



Location of Kapıkule in Turkey

Coordinates: 41°42′28.6″N 26°23′31.1″E / 41.707944°N 26.391972°E / 41.707944; 26.391972Coordinates: 41°42′28.6″N 26°23′31.1″E / 41.707944°N 26.391972°E / 41.707944; 26.391972
Country
 Turkey
Region Marmara Region
Province Edirne
District Edirne (Merkez)
Time zone
UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)
UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
22xxx
Area code(s) +(90)284

Kapıkule is the name of the Turkish border crossing point in Edirne Province on the border of Turkey and Bulgaria. Its counterpart on the Bulgarian side is Kapitan Andreevo. Together, they form the second busiest land border crossing point in the world[1] and the busiest in Europe.[2]


Kapıkule, situated on the State road D100 (D.100) and European route E80, is also an important gateway for cargo transport to the countries east of Turkey. The Asian Highway Network route AH1 terminates at the border. Other land border checkpoints in western Turkey are the neighboring Hamzabeyli (on the D.535) and Dereköy (on the D.555) to Bulgaria and İpsala (on the D.110, E84) to Greece.[2] The Kapıkule railway station, built in 1971, is located to the north of the town and handles more traffic than any other railway border crossing in Turkey.


In the dawn of the Revolutions of 1989, the Kapıkule border crossing saw a mass exodus of Turks fleeing the forced assimilation laws of the mid to late 1980s in the People's Republic of Bulgaria into Turkey.[3]



Border checkpoint facilities[edit]


Around 400.000 vehicles and 4 million people cross annually the border in Kapıkule that makes 35% of all the vehicle and 42% of all the passenger traffic passing through the land borders of Turkey. To meet the demand resulting from growing international crossings, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) signed an agreement with the government in August 2007 to completely overhaul the facilities on Build-Operate-Transfer basis at a cost of 132 million TRL (US$100 million in 2007) in exchange for twenty-year operation.[4][5]


When reopened in the beginning of 2009, there will be 13 passenger car and 5 truck gates for inbound, and 7 passenger car and 6 truck gates for outbound traffic. High tech security equipment like smart-card controlled access, closed-circuit television and x-ray truck cargo check systems are installed at the border area. Also commercial services are provided by fast-food restaurants, duty-free shops, outlet stores, supermarkets and banks.[6] The 24 group of buildings, which house all kinds of service facilities, cover 15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft) on the 289,050 m2 (3,111,300 sq ft) wide checkpoint area.[4]



References[edit]





  1. ^ "Never-ending line of trucks reaches 17 km at Kapıkule". Today's Zaman. 2007-11-26. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-06-17..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ ab "Kapıkule Gümrük Kapısı ile ilgili duyuru" (PDF) (in Turkish). Turkish Government-Customs. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.


  3. ^ "Refugees A Modern Balkan Exodus". TIME Magazine. August 14, 1989.


  4. ^ ab Çakan, Barış (August 27, 2007). "TOBB Kapıkule Sınır Kapısının Modernizasyonuna Başladı" (in Turkish). Gaziantep Chamber of Industry. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved February 14, 2009.


  5. ^ Türk, Eylem (August 28, 2007). "TOBB, Kapıkule'yi güzelleştirecek". Milliyet (in Turkish). Retrieved February 14, 2009.


  6. ^ "Kapıkule inşaatında sona geliniyor". Edirne TV (in Turkish). Archived from the original on June 29, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.












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