Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has intervened in a dispute between Turkish and Russian companies related to the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power station, Turkey’s minister of energy and natural resources Fatih Dönmez told the state-run Anadolu news agency.
The energy ministry said earlier in August that it was seeking to resolve a dispute between parties involved in the construction of the $20bn (€19.6bn) nuclear station by Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom at Akkuyu in southern Turkey.
“When the matter was referred to us, we took initiatives to resolve the problems quickly,” Dönmez told Anadolu. “With such very large projects there can be problems at a local, administrative and financial level. Unfortunately, these problems could not be overcome. We are continuing our efforts.”
The energy ministry said earlier in August that it was seeking to resolve a dispute between parties involved in the construction of the $20bn (€19.6bn) nuclear station by Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom at Akkuyu in southern Turkey.
“When the matter was referred to us, we took initiatives to resolve the problems quickly,” Dönmez told Anadolu. “With such very large projects there can be problems at a local, administrative and financial level. Unfortunately, these problems could not be overcome. We are continuing our efforts.”
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