The Cizre Bridge ( tr, Cizre Köprüsü, ku, Pira Cizîrê) is a long deck-arch bridge, carrying the D.400 across the

Tigris The Tigris () is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the ...

river in

Cizre Cizre (; ar, جَزِيْرَة ٱبْن عُمَر, Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar, or ''Madinat al-Jazira'', he, גזירא, Gzira, ku, Cizîr, ''Cizîra Botan'', or ''Cizîre'', syr, ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ, Gāzartā,) is a city in the Cizre Dis ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The bridge was built as part of the Turkish State Highway System to improve mobility in the region. Prior to its construction, the only way to cross the Tigris river in Cizre was via car-ferries that caused congestion. With the rising popularity of the automobile in Turkey in the 1950s and 1960s, the need for an uninterrupted crossing grew. The Cizre Bridge was completed in 1968 and at the time was the 2nd longest vehicular bridge in Turkey, after the

Birecik Bridge The Birecik Bridge is a long deck arch bridge carrying the D.400 across the Euphrates in Birecik, Turkey. Geography The bridge is on the state highway , which runs from southwest to southeast Turkey. It spans over Fırat River (Euphrates) at ab ...

. A request to name the structure ''Kennedy Bridge'' was put forward in 1963, but the request was denied. The 1968 bridge is northwest of the ruined Roman-era Ain Diwar Bridge, across the border in Syria.

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{{Bridges in Turkey Buildings and structures in Şırnak Province Road bridges in Turkey Bridges completed in 1968 Bridges over the Tigris River 1968 establishments in Turkey Deck arch bridges