By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans

The past two decades have seen the modernisation of Türkiye's rail transport on a broad basis – and the Turkish government appears dead set on further advancing the country's rail network in the coming years. Türkiye currently possesses more high-speed rail than countries like South Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom, and once it completes lines currently under construction or in the planning phase it is set to have the third largest high-speed rail network in the world. [1] [2] Ambitions hardly stop there, with the country on track to becoming a rail superpower: as in addition to building the necessary rail infrastructure Türkiye will also design the trains that operate on it.