GAP Irrigation Modernisation
Irrigation modernisation in Turkey.
Under construction
The record
- Country
- Turkey
- Location
- Şanlıurfa
- Coordinates
- 37.160, 38.790
- Technology
- Irrigation modernisation
- Capacity
- —
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- DSİ
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Domestic (state budget); DSİ and the GAP Regional Development Administration
- Award or start year
- 2028
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
No dated milestones recorded yet. They are added as each is confirmed against a public announcement.
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- T.C. GAP Bolge Kalkinma Idaresi Baskanligi, GAP'ta Son Durum (2024 data). gap.gov.tr.
- 675,250 hectares opened to irrigation by the end of 2024 against the 1,111,355 hectare target set in the 2024-2028 GAP Action Plan, 60.8 per cent of the target, about 1,496,265 metres of main canal in service and distribution networks under construction for a further 93,168 hectares.
- The World Bank irrigation modernisation operations implemented by DSI cover Atabey, Alasehir, Eregli-Ivriz and Uzunlu, not the GAP area: Smart Water Magazine, Irrigation in Turkey to be modernized with World Bank financing (23 January 2019). smartwatermagazine.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
No EBRD irrigation lending to DSI was found, so the funding line is corrected to domestic.