Akkuyu nuclear power plant

Erdogan, Putin remotely start nuclear reactor construction

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the plant would launch Turkey into the ‘league of nuclear energy countries’ and called it a ‘symbol of Turkish-Russian cooperation’
President Erdogan said the first reactor would become operational in 2023, to coincide with the centennial of the modern Turkish state

By AP · 10 March 2021