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Turkey Blackout: Massive Power Outage Plunges Country Into Darkness
ABC News ^
| 3-31-2004
| Patrick Reeval
Posted on 03/31/2015 8:14:03 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A massive nationwide power outage has struck Turkey today, causing travel chaos in major cities and leaving roughly three-quarters of the country with limited electricity.
The blackout -- the worst in Turkey for over a decade -- has affected around 40 provinces. In Istanbul traffic lights and much of the city’s subway went dark after power stopped around 10:30 a.m., officials said.
Local airports were forced to close and flights are disrupted.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackout; powerblackout; turkey
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The only area of Turkey with electricity seems to be a Province bordering Iran.
Lots of interesting unsubstantiated chatter on Twitter about what may be the cause.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:14:03 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
To: tcrlaf
Isn’t the use of electricity offensive to the almighty prophet, ninjaallah?
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:15:49 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
To: tcrlaf
Per Twitter, the only city not affected is VAN, in far eastern Turkey.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:16:15 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: tcrlaf
Wow, their country’s entire electrical grid? This could effect dozens of people.
To: tcrlaf
Sounds very EMPish but I think we would have noticed that.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:17:22 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: tcrlaf
I’d say Erdogan plunged the country into darkness ten years ago.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:18:01 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: tcrlaf
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:18:08 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
To: tcrlaf
BBC:
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said all possible causes are being examined, including terrorism. The cut hit at 10:36 (07:36 GMT) on Tuesday morning.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:18:11 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: circlecity
Someone tripped over the power cord...
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:18:29 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
To: dfwgator
“I’d say Erdogan plunged the country into darkness ten years ago.”
Erdogan at least started the trip into Darkness 10 years ago.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:19:21 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
To: AppyPappy
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:19:42 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: tcrlaf
All kinds of chaos in Turkey today.
This morning A saw that someone had taken a prosecutor hostage over his failure to prosecute a cop who killed an “unarmed teen”.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:20:24 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Noumenon
Someone tripped over the power cord...The hamsters are on strike.
More Kibble or we won't run!
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:20:29 AM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: Kartographer; _Jim
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:21:43 AM PDT
by
null and void
(He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
To: tcrlaf
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:22:31 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:24:08 AM PDT
by
txhurl
To: AppyPappy
Global warming. Must raises taxes to fix it.
To: txhurl
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:26:42 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
To: tcrlaf
The article said this was the worst power outage in ten years, so apparently these happen with some regularity.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:26:48 AM PDT
by
rmh47
(Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
To: AppyPappy
Nah. Just doin’ their part by extending erf hour from last weekend.
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posted on
03/31/2015 8:27:18 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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