“The demand for electricity in Turkey has tripled over the past 20 years and we expect it to continue to grow over the next 20 years.
The first power unit of the Akkuyu NPP will be launched next year," TASS quoted him as saying.
On April 3, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the ceremony to officially start construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey.
In May 2022, Erdogan announced that the country's first nuclear power plant, Akkuyu, would be launched before the end of 2023.