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Akkuyu Power Plant to Begin Operations 2023

TURKEY
  • Construction director of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, Denis Sezemin, told Bloomberg yesterday that “Construction, installation and assembly works of the first unit of Akkuyu power plant [are] to be completed this year and we are working to make it operational early next year”. The first unit had been planned to be operational as of 2025, according to agreement between Russia and Turkey, but that date has been brought forward.
  • In August, work on the joint Turkey-Russia nuclear project stalled after a dispute between Russian state company Rosatom and Turkish contractors. Yesterday, President Erdogan and Putin agreed to reinstate Turkish builder IC Ictas as the main contractor on the $20-billion project, a Turkish official told Bloomberg. “All the issues over Akkuyu nuclear plant construction in Turkey are resolved,” Russian news agency Interfax also reported.
  • Turkey criminalized the spread of what authorities describe as false information on digital platforms, giving the government new powers in the months remaining before elections, Bloomberg report. The measure, proposed by the governing AK Party and its nationalist ally MHP, mandates a jail term of one to three years for users who share online content that contains “false information on the country’s security, public order and overall welfare in an attempt to incite panic or fear.”

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