While Turkey's current highway network extendsd 2,238 kilometers, 228 of which are currently under construction, a total of 4,773 kilometers will be added with the ministry's new highway project. With the new highways, the eastern and western parts of Turkey will be much better connected.
One of the highway projects is a highway between the Gebze district of the northwestern province of Kocaeli and the Aegean province of İzmir, anticipated to be 421 kilometers long and to stretch from Gebze to İzmir via Bursa. Another project, called the Northern Marmara Highway, is planned to be 361 kilometers in length. The highway will start in the northwestern province of Adapazarı and will connect to Tekirdağ's Kınalı and neighboring highways, passing through the currently projected third Bosporus bridge of İstanbul. The Tekirdağ-Çanakkale-Balıkesir highway, which is planned to be 433 kilometers, will connect Thrace to the Aegean parts of Turkey. The Aydın-Denizli-Antalya highway, which is planned to be 335 kilometers long, will provide a direct route from İstanbul, Bursa, İzmir and Aydın to the southern province of Antalya. Other planned highways are along the Ankara-İzmir, Sivrihisar-Bursa, Ankara-Kırıkkale-Delice, Afyon-Burdur-Antalya, Ankara-Pozantı, Şanlıurfa-Habur and Şanlıurfa-Diyarbakır routes as well as another highway to connect Turkey's major cities to Iran and the Caucasus.
