Belemedik station was originally opened on 21 December 1912 by the Baghdad Railway and played an important role in transporting troops to the Mesopotamian and Palestine fronts during World War I. The station was also a gap in the railway, thus goods and soldiers disembarked at Belemedeik and walked to Durak (on the other side of the valley) where the railway continued. The pass through Çakıt Valley was finally completed on 9 October 1918, 11 days before the Ottoman Empire capitulated.