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Çamlıca Tower

Küçük Çamlıca TV & Radio Tower, or simply Çamlıca Tower, is a telecommunications tower with observation decks and restaurants on Little Çamlıca Hill in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey.

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Çamlıca Tower
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Küçük Çamlıca TV & Radio Tower (Turkish: Küçük Çamlıca TV-Radyo Kulesi), or simply Çamlıca Tower, (Turkish pronunciation: [tʃamlɯdʒa]) is a telecommunications tower with observation decks and restaurants on Little Çamlıca Hill in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey.

The total height of the tower is 369 metres (1,211 ft), 221 metres (725 ft) of which is a 49-storey reinforced concrete structure with 18 metres (59 ft) below ground. The height of the tower's steel antenna is 168 metres (551 ft). With a total height of 587 metres (1,926 ft) above sea level, it carries the title of the highest structure in Istanbul.

The structure was chosen by then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the Çamlıca Hill TV & Radio Tower Idea Project, which was opened by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality in 2011. Construction started in late 2016 and finished four years later in September 2020. However, the project was set to be completed by the end of 2019. It was inaugurated on May 29, 2021.

After the tower was put into service, other antennas and antenna towers such as Çamlıca TRT Television Tower were either removed or demolished.

Text: Wikipedia (English), CC BY-SA 4.0 · abridged

Location and names: Wikidata (CC0)

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