Complete paralysis of public life across Türkiye due to power outages

Written By وداد السعودي on 2015/03/31

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

ArabiaWeather.com- The power outage in a large number of Turkish cities caused complete paralysis in public life, as transportation and transportation stopped in the main cities of the country.

There were reports of power outages in more than 50 cities, including the 5 largest Turkish cities, namely Istanbul, Ankara, Ozmir, Trabzon and Antalya, as well as industrial cities.

Traffic, which depends entirely on electricity, has stopped, and the authorities have instructed police forces to take to the streets to regulate traffic.

The power outage also caused air traffic to stop at major airports such as "Esenboga" in Ankara and the airports of Istanbul, Antalya and Bursa, and the metro stopped in "Marmaray", and citizens were prevented from entering it.

An investigation is underway into the reason that led to the power outage throughout Turkey, which is still unknown until now.

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This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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