The Cizre Bridge (, ) is a long deck-arch bridge, carrying the D.400 across the

Tigris The Tigris ( ; see #Etymology, below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian Desert, Syrian and Arabia ...

river in

Cizre Cizre () is a city in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. It is located on the river Tigris by the Syria–Turkey border and close to the Iraq–Turkey border. Cizre is in the historical region of Upper Mesopotamia and the cultura ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. The bridge was built as part of the

Turkish State Highway System The State Highways of the Republic of Turkey () are an integrated network of highways and roads in Turkey, consisting of a numbered grid spanning across the country. They are more commonly called State roads () and are the primary road network in ...

to improve mobility in the region. Prior to its construction, the only way to cross the Tigris river in Cizre was via car-ferries that caused congestion. With the rising usage of the automobile in Turkey in the 1950s and 1960s, the need for an uninterrupted crossing grew. The Cizre Bridge was completed in 1968 and at the time was the 2nd longest vehicular bridge in Turkey, after the

Birecik Bridge The Birecik Bridge is a long deck arch bridge carrying the State road D.400 (Turkey), D.400 across the Euphrates in Birecik, Turkey. Geography The bridge is on the state highway , which runs from southwest to southeast Turkey. It spans over Euphr ...

. A request to name the structure ''Kennedy Bridge'' was put forward in 1963, but the request was denied. The 1968 bridge is northwest of the ruined Roman-era Ain Diwar Bridge, across the border in Syria.

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