Istanbul's third Bosphorus bridge to be named Yavuz Sultan Selim

The $3 billion new bridge to be built over Istanbul’s Bosphorus will be named after Yavuz Sultan Selim, one of the prominent and notorious sultans in Ottoman history.

The sultan, known as Selim the Grim in English, was famous for his conquests in the eastern world, and Turkey’s contemporary border with what is now Iran was determined following the 1514 Battle of Çald?ran against ?ah ?smail of the Safavids.

The 59-meter-wide bridge – the widest in the world – will be the third one to connect the Asian and European sides of Istanbul.

The name of the second bridge over the Bosphorus is named after another sultan, Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Mehmed the Conqueror), who conquered the city from the Byzantines on May 29, 1453. Sultan Yavuz was Mehmed’s grandson. The second bridge was built in 1988.


/HurriyetDailynews.Com/