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Erdoğan, Putin speak over phone ahead of nuclear plant opening

Erdoğan, Putin speak over phone ahead of nuclear plant opening

President Erdoğan will attending today's "fuel loading ceremony" via videoconference due to his recent illness.

Green Left Party: 'We will stop the nuclear nightmare'

Green Left Party: 'We will stop the nuclear nightmare'

The Green and Left Party issued a statement on the Chornobyl Remembrance Day 37 years after the disaster and said they did not want to nuclear power stations in Akkuyu or Sinop.

Earthquake, environmental concerns surround Turkey's first nuke plant ahead of inauguration

Earthquake, environmental concerns surround Turkey's first nuke plant ahead of inauguration

Still under construction, the Akkuyu plant will be inaugurated with a fuel loading ceremony in what critics deemed an attempt by President Erdoğan to boost his party's prospects ahead of the May 14 elections.

Trial of anti-nuclear protestors ends in acquittal

Trial of anti-nuclear protestors ends in acquittal

17 people appeared before the judge on the grounds that they had attended a press statement attempted to be held in front of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Mersin upon the call of the Anti-Nuclear Platform (NKP) and intervened by the police.

17 November 2021

‘No emergency drill conducted at Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant this year’

CHP VICE CHAIR AKIN

‘No emergency drill conducted at Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant this year’

Main opposition CHP Vice Chair Ahmet Akın says that when the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Mersin province starts operating, “Turkey will give a purchasing guarantee to Russia for 15 years for three times the market price.”

Houses damaged in controlled explosion in nuclear power plant site

Houses damaged in controlled explosion in nuclear power plant site

The Governor’s Office of Mersin has released a written statement and announced that the explosion at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant construction site was “planned”, adding that the damage to houses will be compensated.

20 January 2021

'Don’t Let Mersin Become Chernobyl'

CHP MP ANTMEN ON AKKUYU NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

'Don’t Let Mersin Become Chernobyl'

Holding a statement for the press in Parliament regarding the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant under construction in Mersin, CHP Mersin MP Alpay Antmen has shown the poster of Chernobyl TV series and said, “Don’t let Mersin become Chernobyl.”

Ban by Governorship Ahead of Sod-Turning Ceremony in Akkuyu

Ban by Governorship Ahead of Sod-Turning Ceremony in Akkuyu

Mersin Governorship banned demonstrations about nuclear power plant project ahead of the sod-turning ceremony, in which Erdoğan and Putin will participate via video conference. Lawyer Küçük said that their vehicles were stopped while heading towards the site.

3 April 2018 Pınar Tarcan

Request of Appeal Submitted to Council of State about Akkuyu

Request of Appeal Submitted to Council of State about Akkuyu

Environmental rights defenders and NGOs that have filed a lawsuit for the cancellation of Environmental Impact Assessment report issued for Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project have submitted a request of appeal to the Council of State, which has previously ruled the dismissal of charges.

27 March 2018 Pınar Tarcan

Greenpeace Climbs 117m to Protest Turkey’s Nuclear Plant Project

Greenpeace Climbs 117m to Protest Turkey’s Nuclear Plant Project

Greenpeace activists climbed to one of the tallest buildings in the southern district of Mersin to protest Turkey’s first planned nuclear power plant in Akkuyu district.

"We Will not Allow a Nuclear Power Plant in Akkuyu"

"We Will not Allow a Nuclear Power Plant in Akkuyu"

Chambers and associations of Turkish engineers, architects and physicians issued a joint statement against planned nuclear power plants in Turkey. They said that they were not going to allow a power plant to be built in south-eastern Turkey. A protest action is scheduled for Saturday.

18 March 2011 Nilay Vardar