Does anyone know why it connects Sütlüce to Lapseke rather than Kilitbahir
to Çanakkale further southwest along the Dardanelles? The gap looks about one third as wide there.
Perhaps most of the traffic will be coming from the northeast on the Europe side and the east on the Asia side, so Kilitbahir-Çanakkale would add an hour of driving for them? But if that's true, why didn't they built it at Gelibolu-Çardak, which naively looks like a similarly wide gap but would save half an hour?
More than 50000 people died there in one of the fiercest fights of WWI and many of those people was buried there without a grave. So those lands are treated as graveyards of martyrs, and therefore have historical and cultural importance.
Turkish people would not accept building the bridge and the roads there even if it was cheaper.
You mean the Martyrs' Memorial in Çardak? I guess. It still has a big highway going through the town (which is what this bridge connects to regardless), and I would think a suspension bridge would look very nice and respectful in the background of this view:
Judging from Google Maps satellite view (which shows it without the bridge) it looks like there were conveniently-placed islands where they built it...
Perhaps most of the traffic will be coming from the northeast on the Europe side and the east on the Asia side, so Kilitbahir-Çanakkale would add an hour of driving for them? But if that's true, why didn't they built it at Gelibolu-Çardak, which naively looks like a similarly wide gap but would save half an hour?