87% of Turkey’s Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway section ready

87% of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway has been constructed in Turkey, the Turkish minister of transport, shipping and communications, Ahmet Arslan said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports.

“The BTK is being constructed on the schedule,” the minister said, adding that two bridges are being built over the Kars river.

The minister stressed that the BTK railway project is of particular importance for Turkey.