Turkey Power Outage Shuts Down Public Transportation and Half of Provinces

April 1st, 2015

Via: Guardian:

A huge power cut has caused chaos and shut down public transport on Tuesday across Turkey, with the government refusing to rule out that the electricity system had been the victim of an attack.

The nationwide power cut, the worst in 15 years, began about 10.36am in Istanbul, the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted the Turkey Electricity Transmission company (TEIAS) as saying.

It was confirmed to have hit 49 of the country’s total 81 provinces, from the Greek border to those in the south-east neighbouring Iran and Iraq, including Istanbul and the capital, Ankara.

Several hours later, swaths of Turkey including much of Istanbul were still without power, although public transport systems such as metro lines appeared to be working again.

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