Kapıkule

Coordinates: 41°42′28.6″N 26°23′31.1″E / 41.707944°N 26.391972°E / 41.707944; 26.391972
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Kapıkule
Postal code
22770
Area code0284

Kapıkule is the name of the Turkish border crossing point in Edirne Province on the border of Turkey and Bulgaria. Its counterpart on the Bulgarian side is Kapitan Andreevo. Together, they form the busiest land border crossing point in Europe.[1]

Kapıkule, situated on the

D.110, E84) to Greece.[1] The Kapıkule railway station
, built in 1971, is located to the north of the town and handles more traffic than any other railway border crossing in Turkey.

In the dawn of the

Turks fleeing the forced assimilation laws of the mid to late 1980s in the People's Republic of Bulgaria into Turkey.[2]

Border checkpoint facilities

Around 400,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 people cross annually the border in Kapıkule that makes 35% of all the vehicle and 42% of all the passenger traffic passing through the land borders of Turkey. To meet the demand resulting from growing international crossings, the

Build-Operate-Transfer basis at a cost of 132 million TRL (US$100 million in 2007) in exchange for twenty-year operation.[3][4]

The checkpoint reopened in the beginning of 2009 with thirteen passenger car and five truck gates for inbound, and seven passenger car and six truck gates for outbound traffic.

smart-card controlled access, closed-circuit television and X-ray truck cargo check systems are installed at the border area. Commercial services are provided by fast-food restaurants, duty-free shops, outlet stores, supermarkets and banks.[5] The group of 24 buildings, which house various service facilities, cover 15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft) on the 289,050 m2 (3,111,300 sq ft) wide checkpoint area.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Kapıkule Gümrük Kapısı ile ilgili duyuru" (PDF) (in Turkish). Turkish Government-Customs. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
  2. ^ "Refugees A Modern Balkan Exodus". TIME Magazine. August 14, 1989. Archived from the original on April 15, 2009.
  3. ^ a b Çakan, Barış (August 27, 2007). "TOBB Kapıkule Sınır Kapısının Modernizasyonuna Başladı" (in Turkish). Gaziantep Chamber of Industry. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
  4. ^ Türk, Eylem (August 28, 2007). "TOBB, Kapıkule'yi güzelleştirecek". Milliyet (in Turkish). Retrieved February 14, 2009.
  5. ^ "Kapıkule inşaatında sona geliniyor". Edirne TV (in Turkish). Archived from the original on June 29, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
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