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 D.400, which runs from southwest to southeast Turkey. It spans over Fırat River (Euphrates) at about . The river marks the boundary between Nizip district of Gaziantep Province and Birecik district of Şanlıurfa Province. Birecik is just to the east of the bridge and Nizip is to the west.
Project and construction
Up to 1956, travel between Gaziantep and Şanlıurfa was difficult, for all vehicles had to transfer to primitive ferries over the Fırat River. The bridge project was one of the major projects of Turkey in the 1950s. The awarded company was Amaç Ticaret Türk AŞ. The governmental inspection was carried out by the General Directorate of Highways.Chamber of Turkish Civil Engineers page The construction began in August 1951 and the bridge was completed in March 1956.
Details The length of the bridge is and it is wide with on each side reserved for pedestrians. There are five arches over the river Belgeci page and fourteen sections over the land. At the time of its completion, it was the third longest bridge in Turkey, after the Karkamış Bridge and Uzunköprü Bridge.The list
One of Turkey's top 50 civil engineering projects Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers lists Birecik Bridge as one of the fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey, a list of remarkable engineering projects realized in the first 50 years of the chamber.The list
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