The Ankara-Nigde Motorway Project is part of the Trans-European North-South Motorway (TEM) Project, a sub-regional cooperation project established in 1977 with technical and administrative support from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The TEM project, which includes the Ankara-Nigde Motorway, starts in Edirne, passes through Istanbul, and continues through Bolu, Ankara, Pozantı, Bolu, Ankara, Pozantı, Adana and Gaziantep before reaching Şanlıurfa and the Şanlıurfa-Habur section, which is planned to be built in the future.

The Ankara Nigde Motorway, an important section of the TEM, forms the missing piece of the Southern Turkey TEM network.

With the construction and commissioning of the Ankara-Niğde section, an uninterrupted Europe-Middle East transportation connection will be provided through Turkey as a bridge country.