page_title: High-speed rail in Turkey
section_title: Lines under construction and planning phase
hierarchical_section_title: High-speed rail in Turkey / Lines under construction and planning phase
caption_attribution_description: English: Ankara Central Station
context_page_description: The Turkish State Railways started building high-speed rail lines in 2003. TCDD has branded its high-speed service as Yüksek Hızlı Tren which currently operates on two lines: the Ankara–Istanbul high-speed railway and the Ankara–Konya high-speed railway. YHT is the only high-speed rail service in Turkey, with two types of EMU train models operating at speeds of up to 250 km/h or 300 km/h.
  On 13 March 2009, the first phase of the Ankara–Istanbul high-speed railway entered service between Ankara and Eskişehir. On 25 July 2014, the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway services began to reach the Pendik railway station on the Asian side of Istanbul, and on 13 March 2019 the services began to reach the Halkalı railway station on the European side of Istanbul, passing through the Marmaray railway tunnel under the Bosphorus strait. There were initially 6 daily departures in both directions.
  On 23 August 2011, the YHT service on the Ankara–Konya high-speed railway was inaugurated.
  High-speed rail in Turkey is still developing, with new lines currently under construction or in the planning phase.
caption: A TCDD HT65000 at the Ankara Central Station
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