{"id":272796,"date":"2026-09-01T11:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/272796\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:39:15","slug":"turkish-syrian-armies-complete-floating-bridge-over-euphrates-river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/272796\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish, Syrian armies complete floating bridge over Euphrates River"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAMASCUS
\n\"Turkish,<\/p>\n

The Turkish and Syrian armies have completed the construction of a floating bridge<\/a> linking the two banks of the Euphrates River<\/a> in Syria<\/a>, T\u00fcrkiye<\/a>\u2019s ambassador to Damascus said on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Ambassador Nuh Y\u0131lmaz said the bridge was completed on Aug. 30, T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Victory Day, through cooperation between the Turkish Armed Forces and the Syrian army.<\/p>\n

Y\u0131lmaz said the bridge was built to replace an earlier crossing destroyed in flooding.<\/p>\n

Noting that it was the second bridge project carried out jointly by the Turkish and Syrian armies, Yilmaz said, \u201cThe Turkish and Syrian armed forces are building the future together in peace as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra also said on X that the bridge was built to ease the transportation burden for residents of Deir ez-Zor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI extend my sincere thanks to my brother, Turkish Defense Minister Gen. Ya\u015far G\u00fcler, for his intensive efforts to strengthen trust and cooperation between our countries,\u201d Abu Qasra said.<\/p>\n

Y\u0131lmaz earlier said that ties between T\u00fcrkiye and Syria are advancing rapidly in line with the political will demonstrated by the two countries\u2019 presidents, while efforts are also underway to establish the necessary legal framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAMASCUS The Turkish and Syrian armies have completed the construction of a floating bridge linking the two banks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[14478,42674,95,11875],"class_list":["post-272796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-bridge","tag-euphrates-river","tag-syria","tag-trkiye"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117195595037253557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}