As of 2024 a service with this name is operated daily by TCDD Transport running wholly within Turkey between Konya and Adana.

With the completion of the Tripoli to Haifa railway in December 1942[2] and the bridge across the Suez canal at Ferdan a direct rail connection from Istanbul to Cairo was possible, appearing on CIWL literature.

A new railway line from Gaziantep to Karkamış was opened in 1960, allowing some portions of the Taurus Express to bypass Aleppo.

A portion to Aleppo and Damascus was re-added with a Syrian Railways (CFS) sleeping car running weekly to/from Istanbul.

The weekly portion to Aleppo last ran in June 2008, interrupted firstly by engineering work in Turkey and later by civil war in Syria from 2011.