[4][5][6] The bridge was officially opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 18 March 2022 after roughly five years of construction.

[8] The year "1915" in the official Turkish name honours an important Ottoman victory in the Gallipoli campaign comprising a naval engagement followed by a land invasion on the Gallipoli peninsula by the forces of Australia, New Zealand (The ANZACS), France and Great Britain from 25 April 1915 which were largely evacuated by December of that year.

UK-headquartered Arup Group and Norway-based Aas-Jakobsen participated in the project as Independent Design Verifiers (IDV).

A bridge was proposed again in 2012 and went on to be placed in the Turkish government's future transportation projects list in 2014.

[19] The bridge was initially scheduled for completion in September 2023,[18] and later brought forward to March 2022.

Meanwhile, the length of the bridge's main span (2,023 metres) refers to the centennial of the Turkish Republic (1923–2023).