Türkiye inaugurates new high-speed train line

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Congrats China you guys are the best

Turkey building their own trains without relying on China 👍🚝

congrats !

Siemens 🇩🇪

This isn't a new line, it is a new route, and it is surprising they didn't bring it in a long time ago, rather than terminating trains in Ankara.

Heres something you may find interesting. :)

The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird 'turkey'......
.....but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)

In the past 40 years 37 countries have changed their name, partially or fully.
Obviously one can not change the name of an apple or an orange etc in other languages,
but country names are like peoples' individual names, so if you're named John we don't call you Karen. :)

Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.

The name it self has a suffix, '-iye', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',
just like the Latin suffix of '-ia', which exists in such country names like
Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Indones-ia etc.
Basically, the use of '-iye/-ia' is the same as the the use of '-land' suffix in country names like
Ire(Eire)-land, Po(le)-land, Eng(Anglo)-land and so on and so on.

Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).

The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish been over 10,000 years is much older than Latin which is around 1300 years old.

Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble (to sound like) 'Türkiye'
we got various spellings like;

Turq-uía (in Spanish),
Turch-ia (in Italian),
Turq-uie (in French)
Turk-ei (in German)
Turk-ey (in English)

Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as turkey was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named turkey....

...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird 'Turkey Fowl' to define 'Turkish Chicken'...

....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.

In time you don't get to call the harehound simply as Greek or you don't call the terrier Britirsh, or shepherd as simply German,
but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just 'Turkey' and later 'turkey', and this went on for hundreds of years.

Now in modern times, this caused confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on an atlas.

Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )

So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )

Best wishes. ;)

India lagging

That was 1 year ago !

This is Somens Traines they produce in Turkiye, Not in china.

Bring to Senior Foreign Minister Advisor Wang Yi's attention that Pakistan is selling their national air carrier PIA with bids until May 18. Bids has already been submitted but didn't see the list of bidders. Recommend Wang Yi to get a (or more) major Chinese carrier, with lots of international travel business, in partnership with Turkiye's airline to bid on PIA and have the Chinese company set up a major hub in Istanbul with preferential treatment given by Turkiye. Let Turkiye national air carrier handle Pakistan's international flights needs. Turkiye should keep what their carrier can use (like Pakistan's low gas pricing from the middle east, slots, hangers, planes, hotels, etc) and close/sell the ones that is not needed and give a minority share in the venture to Pakistan while keeping the name and company running and also (Turkiye) operating it. Attention to real estatehotels. Turkiye and Chinese airlines should then treat Pakistan air carrier needs as their own, with Turkiye Airlines as an operator, and give them preferential treatment like it was Turkiye's and Chinese own nationals and for their people to use in international flight. Both countries should provide their services at cost to each other. The profit received by Pakistan from the minority stake should be used to subsidize Pakistan's national routes and pay down the previous debt. Turkiye can use Pakistan's manpower (like pilots, flight attendant, food prep, repairs, hotels, etc.) and services and, maybe, create them as one of Turkiye's hub or backup hubs. Need to look at the future and offer an extremely high premium. Beside money show the positive of the sale for everybody and not just hide the sickness temporarily. Stress that they shouldn't look only at the money because it can easily be wasted and gone for good. Bid now and worry about the details later.

Please fire whoever added that annoying background music to the video

There is a saying Turkiye is the China of Europe.

For some reason I thought the railway line and trains were from CRRC.

It’s not built by China.

China is building infrastructures around the world and improving lives everywhere - BRAVO CHINA!

a cooperation project with China .

That high speed train Japan is building for India will not be ready till June-July 2026 in Gujarat.
It started in September 2017 and they are still building it. I wonder how much is the cost overrun. 🤔

Even Indonesia has the 350km/hr high speed trains!!!

Nice. While we in "mighty" America have no high speed trains. Our country is falling apart as Billion$ are lavished on foreign countries and the latest foreign wars.

Built by China?
Of course lah.
Who else?
little-India?😂😂😂

Yes!

Yet us in England will be lucky for HS2 to be built and maybe extended to Manchester