The Chemins de fer de Cilicie Nord-Syrie (CNS), one of the two successors to the Baghdad Railway, operated lines in the newly formed Turkish Republic.

The CNS was a French owned company that operated mainly in Syria.

The Turkish government and the BANP signed an agreement in Ankara on October 27, 1932.

Cenup Demiryolları or the Southern Railways was formed on April 27, 1933.

The BANP was taken over by the Damas, Hamah et Prolongements (DHP) the same year.