İsmet İnönü Boulevard (Ankara)
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İsmet İnönü Boulevard (a.k.a. ''Eskişehir Boulevard'') is a busy boulevard in Ankara, Turkey. The boulevard is named after İsmet İnönü, the second president of Turkey and one of the pioneers of the Turkish War of Independence.


Geography

The easternmost point of the boulevard is at where it intersects Atatürk Boulevard. The westernmost point is at where it intersects
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and fuses to , the Turkish state highway which connects Ankara to western Anatolia. Between these two points the length of the boulevard is about .


Main Buildings

Ankara being the capital of Turkey, has many governmental offices most of which are around İsmet İnönü Boulevard. For example, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Ministry of Energy and Natural Sources,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...
, Turkish Court of Accounts, are at the south side of the boulevard. Ministry of Interior,
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, General Directorate of Highways, State Hydraulic Works,
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and
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are at the north side.


Traffic density

In addition to offices in the İsmet İnönü Boulevard there are also some universities such as
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and
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, some shopping malls, neighborhoods and newly established office buildings around D-200 further to west. Thus the traffic density on İsmet İnönü Boulevard is very high. To ease the traffic flow the municipality of Ankara established a series of four underpasses in the course. These underpasses are useful especially for the side street connections.Ankara municipality page
/ref> Another recent facility is ''M2'', a new line of Ankara Metro.


References

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