{"id":201112,"date":"2025-10-27T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=201112"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:00:28","slug":"turkey-launches-zangezur-corridor-project-to-expand-baku-tbilisi-kars-railway-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/201112\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey launches \u2018Zangezur Corridor\u2019 project to expand Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Turkey is implementing numerous initiatives in the transportation sector, Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uralo&#287;lu said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Turkey is one of the most important partners in the Middle Corridor and among the countries located along the transit route,&rdquo; the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Uralo&#287;lu, the &ldquo;Zangezur Corridor&rdquo; project is being pursued as an alternative route to enhance the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars line&rsquo;s throughput. He noted that Turkey has already started work on the &ldquo;Zangezur Corridor&rdquo;, while construction on other sections is either ongoing or will commence soon.<\/p>\n<p>The minister stated that reinforcing only the eastern and western lines is not sufficient, highlighting the need to create alternative and robust routes along the north-south axis as well.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey is implementing numerous initiatives in the transportation sector, Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uralo&#287;lu said. &ldquo;Turkey is one of the most important partners in the Middle Corridor and among the countries located along the transit route,&rdquo; the minister said. According to Uralo&#287;lu, the &ldquo;Zangezur Corridor&rdquo; project is being pursued as an alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":201092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,95,82,101,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-azerbeijan","category-turkey","category-economy","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201113,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201112\/revisions\/201113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}