Çukurova Regional Airport ( tr, Çukurova Bölgesel Havalimanı) is a projected airport being built in the Tarsus district of

Mersin Province Mersin Province ( tr, ), formerly İçel Province ( tr, ), is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is Mersin, which is composed of f ...

, southern

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. It will serve the provinces of Mersin and

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, as well as the rest of the region of Çukurova. It most likely will be continuing all and more destinations from its predecessor,

Adana Şakirpaşa Airport Adana Airport or Adana Şakirpaşa Airport ( tr, Adana Havalimanı) is an international airport located in Adana, Turkey. The airport serves mainly to Cilicia region and in a lesser extent to the provinces surrounding Cilicia, due to its frequent ...

, including its IATA code of 'ADA'. The project was said to begin operations in February 2023.

Çukurova region

Çukurova is a region in mid south Turkey which includes the historical

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of the antiquity. The Turkish provinces of

, Mersin,

Osmaniye Osmaniye () is a city on the eastern edge of the Çukurova plain in southern Turkey and the capital of Osmaniye province. Backed by the foothills of the Nur Mountains, Osmaniye lay on one of the old Silk Roads and was always a place of strategic ...

as well as a part of

Hatay Hatay Province ( tr, Hatay ili, ) is the southernmost province of Turkey. It is situated almost entirely outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of ...

are in Çukurova. At the present all these provinces are served by

in the urban fabric of

city. But the increasing air traffic necessitates a higher capacity airport.

Location

The new airport will be constructed at the west of Karasavran village between Çiçekli and Kargılı in Tarsus district of

. The distance from the airport to Yenice, the main railroad junction is , to Çukurova Motorway is and to Tarsus is about . The airport is also close to another project, the Kazanlı Coast Tourism Project, within the scope of Tourism centers of Mersin Province.

The project

The construction contract was signed on 26 January 2012. According to a statement made by Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Communications, Maritime affairs and Telecommunications, it is a build-operate-transfer project. The undertaker is a consortium of "Skyline" and "Zonguldak Özel Sivil Havacılık". The builders have the right to operate the airport for a term of nine years and ten months. The minister added that the airport will have international status and will so help to increase the export of the region and the number of tourists. According to the newspaper ''

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'', the project's cost will be 357 million Euro. When finished, it will serve to 15 million people, and the capacity will be doubled in the future. In February 2022 the opening was announced for 29 October 2022, National holiday of the Republic. Then on 31 October 2022, the opening was delayed until February 2023. As of 9 March 2023, the airport is not yet open.

Groundbreaking

The groundbreaking ceremony was held on 28 May 2013.Airtimes news
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Binali Yıldırım explained that the location of the airport has been carefully chosen to serve both

and Mersin.

References

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Çukurova region

Location

The project

Groundbreaking

See also

References