President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Antalya Airport New Internal and International Terminal Buildings in the opening ceremony, “No passenger guarantee project with the contractor companies for 25 -year operating time, including VAT 8 billion 555 million euro rental revenue.” he said.
Anadolu Agency (AA) “Global Communication Partner” where the 4th Antalya Diplomatic Forum for the President Erdogan, Antalya Airport new internal and international terminal buildings officially opened.
Erdogan began his speech by greeting the participants, the opening of the new terminal buildings will increase the value of Antalya will increase one more time, he said.
Erdoğan thanked the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the contractor firm employees who contributed to the project and wished that the new terminal buildings would be beneficial for the aviation, culture and tourism sectors, especially in Antalya.
Reminding that millions of local and foreign tourists are hosted every year in Antalya, Erdoğan continued as follows:
“Tourists coming to Antalya from all over the world benefit from the richness of the culture and nature of the city on the other hand makes an important contribution to our tourism revenues, which is one of our locomotive sectors. The interest in our city is so high that our Antalya Airport has been serving the person over the current passenger capacity of 35 million for the last 2 years. We expect the total number of passengers to exceed 40 million people this year.
Taking into account these numbers, we have taken a strong step to enlarge our Antalya Airport, which is currently serving 12 percent of its current capacity with new terminal buildings and complementary structures. In order to implement additional investments for the increase in capacity, we started to work on January 5, 2022 by delivering space to our contractor company. Within the scope of the project, the international terminal from 90 thousand 143 square meters to 224 thousand square meters, the domestic terminal 36 thousand 859 square meters to 75 thousand square meters. Thus, we increased the annual passenger capacity of our airport from 35 million to 82 million. Now, our Antalya Airport has achieved the capacity to ‘welcome’ to 82 million guests from every corner of the world. “
“We did it without a single penny from the state’s safe”
With its modern architecture, strong infrastructure and augmented capacity of the new terminal buildings, Erdoğan emphasized that Antalya will open the doors of Antalya to much wider horizons. State Guest House, 5 thousand square meters of State Airports Authority Service Building, personnel lodging with our mosque before we opened. ” He said.
In addition to being proud, they have offered an innovative and visionary project to the service of the city in all respects, Erdogan said, “We realized the project requiring approximately 927 million investment volumes without a single penny within the scope of the public-private cooperation model. he said.
2 billion 138 million 750 thousand euros, which is 25 percent of the rental price of the investor company, paid in advance in March 2022 and that this price entered the state of the state before the end of the work, Erdogan said:
“Thus, this distinguished project has become one of the most successful examples of public resources and public-private sector cooperation. Today, our new terminal buildings will now serve our Antalya Airport. Antalya will carry the tourism potential to a much higher level. In the last 23 years, we have made great investments in order to maximize opportunities.
We have transformed our country into one of the world’s largest flight networks in the world with the slogan ‘There will be no point in the world’. In the field of aviation, we raised the highest league on a global scale. We increased the number of active airports, which has been 26 since 2002, to 58 with our Çukurova International Airport, which we opened on August 10, 2024. Our Istanbul Airport hosted 80.1 million passengers in 2024 and took the second place in Europe and seventh in the world. In the coming period, we will increase our Active Airport count and Yozgat and Bayburt-Gümüşhane airports from 58 to 60. See, we not only make big dreams for Türkiye, but we also transform them into big goals, and then we realize these goals one by one. “
“Those who complain about their country to others cannot understand this vision”
Erdogan said that they are trying to give the right to be a member of a great nation with their history, conscience and claims.
Erdogan said that they are trying to be mazhar of the nation, “those who complain to others to others can not understand this vision. Foreign press organizations can not understand this. The West bends and bent in front of the West, hand claws, we can not understand our upright stance. We can never and never understand what we are struggling with, we look at them in their own small worlds. ” he said.
“We are looking to bring the tourism potential of Antalya to the levels it deserves”
Stating that they continue to increase the reputation of Türkiye as in the Antalya Diplomatic Forum, Erdoğan said that Erdoğan said: Erdoğan said:
“We are looking to bring the tourism potential of Antalya to the levels it deserves with visionary projects. Because we trust this nation. We believe in this nation. We know that our nation will always support us while walking in the direction we know. I hope it will bring good for. “
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Following his speech, President Erdoğan presented the picture of the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu depicted by Antalya Airport.
The ceremony, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Ersin Tatar, Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Vice President Cevdet YILMAZ, Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Youth and Sports Osman Aşkın Bak, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin, Minister of Health, the President of the Turkish States, the President of the Republic of Turkey, the President of the Council of the Turkish States Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala attended.
