Fahrettin Altay-Narlıdere Metro, completed with an investment of 5 million euros by the Metropolitan Municipality, which has accelerated rail system investments in the last 287 years in line with Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tunç Soyer's goal of knitting the city with iron networks, was opened with a magnificent ceremony. “Let them not forget! Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tunç Soyer said, "I am a long-distance runner..." and emphasized that he will continue to work for Turkey. "Our line until now was Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. His words, "From now on, our surface is our entire homeland" were applauded for a long time. Narlıdere Metro, which will shorten the transportation of Fahrettin Altay and Narlıdere by minimizing the transportation on rubber wheels, with an investment of 12 million euros, which was at 287 percent when Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tunç Soyer took office, was opened with a magnificent ceremony. . 100. The first trip from Yıl Cumhuriyet Martyrdom Station was made by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tunç Soyer and his wife Neptün Soyer, members of parliament, district mayors, municipal bureaucrats and representatives of non-governmental organizations. Mayor Soyer's speech was frequently interrupted by applause and chants of "Izmir is Proud of You". After Soyer's speech, the workers who took part in the pioneering projects he implemented during his term of office took the stage with applause. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tunç Soyer said the following in his speech at the ceremony: Many colors, many sounds, many breaths, Izmir! Beautiful Izmir, the city of liberation and founding! This is historical Are you ready to open the Narlıdere Metro together on this holy day? Are you ready to shout loudly our commitment to democracy, secularism and our Republic? Are you ready to stand up against this system that takes 40 from Izmir and gives 1? To women... To laborers... To villagers... Are you ready to destroy the injustices done to farmers... To children... To nature and to all our young people whose hope has been stolen? Today is the day of 4 and a half million who are united with the love of Izmir despite the pandemic, disasters and economic crisis. Today... To those who increase prosperity by saying "Izmir with love"... To those who wake up before sunrise ... It is the day of those who work hard for this city. Today is the day when 5 years of working with a labor-protected service approach, not exchange-protected, are crowned. Today is the day when the newest rail system of our city shines brightly... Dear Izmir residents, with your appreciation, on April 8, 2019, while I was receiving my certificate, I promised. I will work wholeheartedly, head-on, and with love for Izmir. We all put our hearts into it for Izmir. No matter how difficult the conditions were, we produced actions, not excuses. And today, with our foreheads high and our heads held high, we say: “We promised, we did!” 5 years ago, In our election manifesto, I promised to realize 165 of our projects. I am very proud to be the only mayor in Turkey who has completed these projects at a rate of 87 percent and added 15 projects to this rate. In 5 years, we tried to solve Izmir's gangrenous problems of 50 years and secured the next 50 years. 100th anniversary of our Republic. We crowned the year with the September 9 celebrations and the Second Century Economic Congress, which we engraved in history. With our reputation in the international arena and our Izmir stance, we became the Municipality that brought the most financing from international financial institutions in 5 years. We either found a way… Or we opened a way! With solidarity… Always many colors . Always a lot of noise. We have always been pioneers with great effort. My brothers, those who know Izmir know... There is not a single letter "U" belonging to the Ministry of Transport in this city. Instead, there is Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which built its own metro line only with its own means. We are the last in Turkey. We are the municipality that allocated the largest proportion of its budget to rail systems in five years. During my 5-year term of office, we made a rail system investment of 952 million Euros in Izmir, that is, 31 billion liras at today's rate. So, what is the rail system investment that the central government deemed worthy of Izmir in these 5 years? How much do you know? Only 3 thousand lira. You can't buy his toy... We said that subway will come to Buca. We are bringing it. On January 9, we lowered the tunnel drilling machines called "giant mole" into the ground in Buca... The construction of our Buca Metro, which is the largest rail system project in the history of Izmir and will carry 400 thousand passengers a day, continues at full speed. Its financing is ready in foreign currency, there is no obstacle to its completion, but of course we will follow up. We opened the Çiğli Tram, which serves 100 thousand Izmir residents a day, on January 27. And today… we are starting our Narlıdere Metro, which will carry 170 thousand Izmir residents a day, with great enthusiasm. . Our metro will provide completely free service until April 15. I am proud to complete this line, which we took over at a level of 12 percent from the previous period, within my term of office. In every floor, every meter and every step of this giant rail system investment, there is not the tricks of the palace, but the hard work of the people. .There is no theft at the core of Narlıdere Metro. There is honesty and courage. There is no nepotism or profiteering at the core of our investments. There is unity and solidarity. İzmir's newest metro, which came to life with an investment of 287 million Euros, is the 100th anniversary of our Republic. A tribute to your age!Dear Izmir residents, Without interceding or bowing to anyone... By serving Izmir 7 hours a day, 24 days a week, I focused on the right things that save the day and build the future of this city, not on populist solutions. I wanted to do it once, let's do it completely. I wanted us to rebuild this city, starting from the bottom. Let's consign the problems that have been going on for 50 years to history. zamOur memories are not enough. I will only tell you about our firsts, bests and uniques in Turkey. It's all about business, no matter what! We are the municipality that has added the most new buses to its fleet in the last five years in Turkey. We purchased 692 new buses. We implemented the İZTAŞIT project for the first time in Turkey. We provided the most comfortable transportation for our citizens in the most remote parts of Izmir. With this cooperative-based project, we brought minibus drivers together under one roof and set an example for Turkey. We established the Earthquake Department as soon as we took office. We are the only municipality that provided 6 million lira for rent support to 33.098 families with the BirKiraBirYuva campaign, first during the Izmir earthquake and then during the February 330 earthquake. Our act of kindness Thanks to this, we established container cities in 4 cities of the earthquake zone and a field hospital in Hatay. The right to life of every Izmir resident is our main priority. For this reason, today, Izmir is the city most prepared for a possible post-earthquake scenario, rest assured. We prepared the earthquake report cards of 100 thousand buildings in Izmir and delivered their building identity documents. For the first time in the history of Izmir, we updated the guide for the future construction of the city with microzonation and ground mobility studies. Currently, we have electricity and waste water discharge units in all 2500 gathering areas; Our mobile food trucks, laundries; Rest assured, we have 30 shelter areas ready and the army of disaster volunteers we have created is fully ready for disasters. We have achieved a first in Turkey by combining urban transformation with the Halk Housing project in Izmir. We brought the cooperative model to urban transformation. In just one period, we added 50 kilometers of new lines to the 642 kilometers of rainwater lines built in the last 303 years. Because we said we would solve the floods. We became the municipality that made the largest infrastructure investment in Turkey by building half of the total rainwater line in Izmir's history in 5 years. We implemented our Sponge City Project, which is a first in Turkey. We started to harvest rainwater and use it in agriculture, homes and gardens. Again, for the first time in Turkey, we distributed water tankers to forest villages and established special detachments. We prevented hundreds of fires before they even got bigger. Dear people of Izmir, we protected the local and national, our core values, by saying "Another Agriculture is Possible". We protected the sweat of the masters of our nation. Our Great Leader Atatürk's words, "Every factory is a castle" are the greatest words on this path. He became our guide. We brought four factories and four new Republic castles to Izmir. We are the only public institution in Turkey that does this. Our Bayındır Dairy Factory, Şaşal Water Factory, İzDönüsüm Facility and Ödemiş Meat Integrated Facility... With our Pasture İzmir project, we toured the mountains, villages and pastures of Izmir. We knocked on the door of our 5117 shepherds. We developed a Shepherd Map for the first time in Turkey. With the guidance of this map, we increased our purchase price of sheep milk by 2024 percent in 76 and determined the liter price of goat milk as 30 lira and sheep milk as 37 lira. We spread the Milk Lamb project, which originated in Izmir, to 30 districts. Thus, we ensured that our farmers were fed in the place where they were born and increased their welfare. We introduced the "İzmir" branded products we processed at Bayındır Milk Factory and the meat we processed at the Ödemiş Meat Integrated facility to the people of Izmir by opening 14 People's Grocery Stores. zammoment became our greatest guide. We ruled this beautiful city together.
In Izmir, we left no neighborhood untouched, no door untouched. We listened to the problems of our citizens on-site with our mobile office application, which is a first in Turkey. We talked to our headmen, who are the carrier column of local democracy. zamWe were shoulder to shoulder. We met, talked and listened to each of the 1293 headmen working in Izmir. I am grateful to each of them. With the work of our Emergency Solution Team, which is a first in Turkey, we have provided equal and highest level of service, especially in the back areas. Our biggest priority in Izmir is every zamThe moment was transparency. According to the 2023 Open Data Index, we ranked first among 12 metropolitan municipalities and 5 district municipalities with the highest score. We spread the Children's Municipality, which I started during my term as Seferihisar Mayor, throughout Izmir. We established Turkey's first children and youth municipalities. We set an example for UNICEF and the world. From hot meals at universities to free laundry services, from youth centers to house transportation... We initiated practices for our youth that have not been implemented anywhere else in Turkey. We designed the fairy tale houses, which we established for the first time in Turkey, not only as a nursery for our children, but also as a center for the employment of women. Our female producers We took care of their hard work. Today, women continue to serve in the administrative positions of our Municipality with great success. We employed more than 200 female drivers in our municipality and inspired the whole of Turkey with this decision. We trained female construction equipment operators and automotive mechanics in Izmir and employed them all. We said equal pay for equal work in employment. We approached this goal step by step every day. With Sodemsen, of which I am the founding president, we spread this model to all social democratic municipalities and established a fair and strong bond between the workers and the municipality. We opened Turkey's first 30-acre therapy garden, which serves our disabled citizens. City Theaters, one of the biggest dreams of the people of Izmir, 70 years ago. After a year, we established it within the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. We brought theater to our villagers through village theatres. We gifted Turkey with the first digital tourism encyclopedia, Visit Izmir. When we took office, we increased the number of cruise lines from zero to 72, and direct flights to Izmir to more than 60 destinations. The number of tourists coming to Izmir has doubled in the last five years, despite the pandemic. We initiated the most comprehensive mobilization against pollution and odor in the Gulf of Izmir and became the municipality that allocated the highest budget. Because we promised a swimmable, living bay. Today, after many years, we hosted dolphins in our bay. We overhauled the Çiğli Wastewater Treatment Plant. 4 that has been waiting for years. We started the phase construction. We rehabilitated the mud stock areas around the facility. We started the project that moves the discharge mouth of the facility from the inner bay to the middle bay. In order to do all this, we brought 405 Million Euros, that is, 13 Billion liras, of financing to Izmir from abroad. With the aim of harmony with nature, the biggest thing we will leave to this city is One of our jobs is to end Izmir's Yeşildere ordeal. We started Turkey's largest green transformation project by expropriating all parcels between the road route and İZBAN. We will host the world's most beautiful botanical EXPO in Yeşildere in 2026. I hope that the mayors after me will properly complete these investments, the budget of which is ready, the permits have been obtained and most of which have started. In order to make peace with the sun, we have installed solar power plants on the roofs of the service buildings of our municipality. . We opened Turkey's first animal hospital that produces its own energy. We installed Turkey's first rooftop solar power project on the roof of the Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stadium in our Tire district. We have brought a brand new model to Izmir in waste management, which is one of the biggest issues of our age. We separate the waste in our city while it is still at its source in the IzRecycling Facility we purchased. In order to provide this workforce, we employed our street picker brothers for the first time in Turkey. We made Izmir the world's first Cittaslow Metropolitan city. We increased the amount of green space per capita by 60 percent by establishing Living Parks. We increased the capacity, developed it with new units, and provided home health services. We have become the municipality that provides the most comprehensive health service in Turkey with our Eşrefpaşa Hospital, where we reach thousands of citizens. We have protected the 8500-year-old richness and culture of our city with our work, which is the World's Izmir Heritage. We became the municipality that invested the most in archaeological excavations in all of Turkey. We enabled Kemeraltı, the world's oldest and largest open-air bazaar, to act as a leverage in Izmir's tourism. We have invested more than 700 million lira in Kemeraltı, including infrastructure and superstructure works. I am proud to say that we spent approximately 40 percent of our budget on investments every year. I did not do all this, we did it. Izmir did it. All together, we have built a safe and peaceful city. Dear people of Izmir, Izmir is the antidote to the authoritarian and populist political climate in our country, with its equal and egalitarian spirit, its culture at peace with itself and those who are not like it. Izmir is the safest bastion of secularism and the Modern Republic of Turkey. All together, this is Do you promise to protect the castle? Dear brothers and sisters, this city has been treated as a stepchild with the party-state approach for decades. However, it has never given up on walking on the path it believes is right, the path of democracy. Despite all the pressures, Izmir belongs to the CHP, the strongest defender of universal values in our country's politics. He continued to support. It embraced the founding values of the Republic. That is why the strong relationship between CHP and Izmir is not a coincidence. At the core of both of them is the effort to build a bridge of civilization extending from Anatolia to the world. But unfortunately today, change is taking place by undermining the slogan and missing its target. We sadly see that the hopes are being broken and hopes are fading. However, if you are fighting against a party-state or if a party is abusing the power it received from the ballot box and seizing the state, that hope is needed very much and the only real subject of that hope is the people. The demands of the citizens are the only and truest guide. You will see. Together, we will rekindle that hope and carry our centuries-old Republic heritage forward. The 100th anniversary of our Republic. We will further raise the age and the values of the Republican People's Party, which is the bastion of its revolutions and virtues. "Another politics is possible" because politics is the art of improving life. And that art reaches its goals only when it is done together with the society. That is, together with the people, with a populist transformation... We know this very well that we all deserve better. This country, this heavenly homeland, deserves better. Our road is bumpy, our path is long, but our goal is beautiful, the journey to that goal is beautiful... We will continue to walk forward, towards the good, and towards the truth together... The beautiful people of this beautiful city that I am in love with, Of course, your party is grateful for all this effort. and you expect an appreciation from your comrades. Here is my reproach to those who received the highest organizational support with 522 votes out of 508 delegates in the closed voting at the Izmir CHP provincial congress, who were brought to the highest position in the international arena with their achievements, who came first in the polls, who saw so much effort and dozens of revolutionary works as a thank you. I thank them. The greatest reward on this path is the appreciation of you, my dear fellow citizens of Izmir. Even if my duty in this office is over, the position of heart that you have not granted to every politician, but that you have placed me in, is the greatest reward for me. I say with all my heart, this pride is enough for me and my children. Izmir' Well, I would like to thank the 4 and a half million honest and honorable people of this city for making me feel this pride. My friends, never listen to those who say get well soon. It is the city that has always supported Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Republic revolutions and has paid the price for it. To all the people of Izmir…well done! Good luck! To the women, children, youth of Izmir… To the aged plane trees of Izmir… Well done! Good luck to the future! Well done to the industrialists, tradesmen, farmers, merchants of Izmir! Good luck! To my colleagues who accompanied me on my 5-year journey, starting from our general secretary, deputy general secretaries, department heads, managers, chiefs, managers and employees of our municipal companies. Well done to all the workers of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and of course to their beloved families, spouses and children... Well done! Good luck! I will serve for this country, for Izmir, until my last breath. I will continue to do this without pandering to anyone, without handing over these lands to profiteering gangs. I forgive you, and you too, my brothers! I am proud of Izmir! Don't forget! I am a long-distance runner... I will continue to be a soldier of democracy in this country. As a soldier, I will follow all the projects we have initiated together. They should know this very well! Our line until now was Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. From now on, our surface is the entire homeland. My brothers! On this sunny day when we are together, the cemres started to fall one by one. They first fell into the air, then into the water. and falls to the ground. But more importantly, the fourth jamra will fall into our hearts. That jamra will be the "sweet sun of democracy". And he will never leave us alone. Be of good cheer, too. “I am honored”
Balçova Mayor Fatma Çalkaya and Narlıdere Mayor Ali Engin also made speeches at the ceremony. Çalkaya said, “Urban transportation is a very important service for Izmir. In important cities of the world, the traffic problem is tried to be solved by taking transportation underground. It was a very difficult time. "Today, I am honored to inaugurate this project under the leadership of Tunç Soyer," he said.
Ali Engin said, “I would like to thank the people of Narlıdere, especially Tunç Soyer, for working day and night, including the pandemic, and completing the project despite the obstacles in difficult conditions. "We will see in the coming days how beneficial the metro is to Narlıdere and Izmir," he said.DJ Ersin Show and Haluk Levent concert
After the opening excitement, the excitement will continue in Balçova. The excitement will reach its peak with the opening of Narlıdere Metro, which aims to carry 170 thousand passengers daily, with DJ Ersin Show and the concert of the popular artist Haluk Levent. Consists of 7 stations
On the line, which will be the continuation of the existing line starting from Evka-3 and ending at Fahrettin Altay; There are Balçova, Çağdaş, Dokuz Eylül University Hospital, Faculty of Fine Arts, Narlıdere, Martyrdom and District Governorate stations. The last stop, District Governorship station, will be opened on March 15.found 287 million euros
Izmir Light Rail System 4th Phase F. Altay-Narlıdere District Governorship Construction Work; It was delivered to the contractor company on June 4, 2018, with a contract value of 252 million Euros. This cost reached 287 million Euros with exploration increases. A total of 27 kilometers of uninterrupted rail transportation service will be provided between Bornova district in the north of Izmir and Narlıdere district in the south. Izmir residents will have safe, comfortable, environmentally friendly and economical rail transportation; It will also save time. Passengers boarding at one end will reach the other end in 45 minutes. The length of the highway between the two ends is approximately 47 kilometers. This route is suitable for motor vehicles, especially where traffic is heavy. zamIt can be taken in 1,5-2 hours at any time.
