TEKİRDAĞ (AA) – Tekirdağ Police Department teams carried out an inspection to ensure traffic safety before Eid al-Adha. Provincial Police Department Traffic Branch Directorate teams inspected the drivers at the TOKİ application point on the Istanbul-Tekirdağ highway. During the inspections, checks were made regarding seat belt use, speed rules, mobile phone use while driving and drunk driving. While the teams warned the drivers to comply with the traffic rules, they also gave information to the passengers for a safe journey.
At the application point, cologne and chocolate were offered to the driver and passengers. It was reported that traffic inspections will continue during the holiday. 30 teams and 82 traffic personnel from the Provincial Police Department are on duty at the 7 main lighted intersections on the Istanbul-Tekirdağ highway. 11The water discharged from a height of 173 meters at the Karakaya Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant (HEPP) in Çüngüş district of Diyarbakır turned into a visual feast.
The amount of water in the basin of Karakaya Dam and HEPP, Turkey’s third largest dam and second largest hydroelectric power plant, reached 9.5 billion cubic meters with heavy rainfall. In the Karakaya Dam and HEPP, which has an installed capacity of 1800 megawatts with a total of 6 units, 2 discharge gates of the dam were opened in the first place on May 11, after 7 years, against the risk of possible floods due to the water level approaching the maximum level.
The discharge of pressurized water from the dam set, whose body height is 173 meters, turned into a visual feast. Rainbows occasionally form in the region due to sunlight.
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