The bridge was built in 1936–37 at a cost of 93,000 lira. The public works minister of the day, Ali Çetinkaya, said it was built "on Atatürk's own order": in July 1934, travelling by road to Adapazarı by way of Bolu, Atatürk crossed the wooden Tavuklar bridge near what is now Kumköy and saw that it would not do.
Getting there
- Access
- At the entrance to the Rüstemler neighbourhood on the Adapazarı–Karasu road, six kilometres from the city centre.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Sakarya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.3 °C in January to 23.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (106 mm) and lightest in August (48 mm). Long-term means for 1951-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
