THE City of Istanbul has issued a tender for 50 new four-car metro trains for Istanbul Metro.

ISTANBUL has moved a step closer to its target of completing 400km of metro line by 2019 with the opening of the 4.5km extension of Line M4 from Kartal to Kaynarca.

ISTANBUL Metropolitan Municipality has awarded Hyundai Rotem a Won 359bn ($US 316m) contract to supply 300 driverless metro cars for the city's rapidly-expanding urban rail network.

TURKISH State Railways (TCDD) confirmed to IRJ on April 6 that it is planning to start operations on the second phase of the Marmaray project in Istanbul in the first half of 2017.

THE mayor of Istanbul Mr Kadir Topbaş announced on November 11 that construction will begin on 10 urban rail projects totalling nearly 100km next year as the city continues its drive to expand the network to 483km by the end of the decade.

ISTANBUL Metropolitan Municipality has launched an environmental impact assessment into the construction of a 10km tram line along the western bank of the Golden Horn.

TURKEY's transport minister Mr Feridun Bilgin confirmed on August 19 that a consortium of Turkish construction companies Gülermak and YSE has been awarded a contract to carry out civil works on the 7.4km extension of Istanbul metro Line M4 from Kaynarca to Sabiha Gökçen International Airport.

ISTANBUL Metropolitan Municipality announced on August 12 that it will launch tenders next month for contracts to build two new metro lines as part of plans to expand the city's urban rail network to 441km by the end of the decade.

ISTANBUL celebrated the completion of another addition to its metro network on April 18, when Turkey's president Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan took an inaugural trip on Line M6.

ISTANBUL Metropolitan Municipality says it plans to launch a tender before the end of this month for the contract to construct the second phase of metro Line M7.