Akkuyu

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Turkey on April 3 to attend a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for Turkey's first nuclear plant on the Mediterranean coast in the Akkuyu district and to also chair a High-Level Cooperation Council meeting on April 3.

Turkey plans to invest $125 billion into energy by 2023, as the country's energy demands continue to increase tremendously, Turkish Energy Minister Ali R?za Alaboyun said during a speech at the Atlantic Council Energy & Economic Summit in Istanbul, which was officially started on Nov. 19 with a keynote speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. 

Turkish Energy Minister Ali R?za Alaboyun said plans have been made for Turkey?s third nuclear plant and Chinese, Japanese firms and U.S. companies have shown interest in an exclusive interview with the Anadolu Agency Editors? Desk on Oct. 14. 

Turkey's Energy Minister has refuted recent reports about uncertainties in Turkey's planned first nuclear power plant project in the southern district of Akkuyu amid rising rows between Turkey and Russia over Syria, saying that there is no problem with the project. 

Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant has completed the selection process of 80 Turkish students to study nuclear engineering in Russia from among 6,300 candidates. 

A group of protesters have locked the attendees of the ground breaking ceremony for Turkey?s first nuclear power plant to protest the construction of the plant in the southern province of Mersin.

Environmentalists from Mersin?s Gülnar neighborhood locked the iron doors of the nuclear facility in the Akkuyu district on April 14, isolating several guests and journalists. 

Turkey will send 80 more students to Russia to get nuclear energy education in addition to the 300 students who have already been to Russia for the same purposes, Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z said Feb. 9.

Several coal plants and a cement factory are planned to be built near the site of Turkey’s first prospective nuclear plant in the eastern Mediterranean district of Akkuyu, an opposition politician has claimed.