The “Canal Istanbul Project” was announced first time on April 27, 2011 by then Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, who was the prime minister at the time. It didn’t have a name then, it was described as the ‘Crazy Project’. According to the EIA report, the project passes through the borders of Küçükçekmece, Avcılar, Başakşehir, Arnavutköy