Bosphorus Bridge

15 Temmuz Şehitler Köprüsü is the bridge many people still call the Bosphorus Bridge, and that old name tells you exactly what it changed: it was the first bridge to link Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus. Opened in 1973, it later took its current name in honor of the martyrs of 15 July 2016, so one span now carries two very different layers of Turkish history. At 1,560 meters long, with a main span of 1,074 meters, it became one of the defining engineering works of modern Istanbul, crossing the water between the city’s busiest shores. The German name, Brücke der Märtyrer des 15. Juli, keeps that commemorative meaning intact, even when the bridge is mentioned far from Istanbul. From here, the traffic, cables, and skyline all belong to the same story, and just beyond the roadway the Bosphorus shoreline still holds ferry landings and waterside neighborhoods that predate the bridge itself.

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