Turkey aims to sign international deals for two new nuclear power plants by the end of the year if it receives competitively priced offers that meet its localisation goals, a senior energy official said on 30 June.

Speaking at a nuclear energy summit in Istanbul, Salih Sari, acting head of the energy ministry’s nuclear projects unit, said the Sinop plant is expected to start generating power before 2035 and the Igneada plant shortly after.

Sinop is on the Black Sea in northern Turkey and Igneada is in Thrace, also on the Black Sea, not far from the Bulgarian border.