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ABC News ^ | 3-31-2004 | Patrick Reeval

[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.

[mykroar]

As God is my witness, I thought Turkey had lights.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Just great! 8^( My BIL was supposed to be flying home from there today! Sis is gonna be bummed out!

[matt04]

Earf hour. The grassroots effort run by the World Wildlife Fund.

[Old Sarge]

Good, you saw this too.

A nationwide grid-down - and all jokes aside, there are cities teeming with huddled masses.

To say nothing about the USAF base at Incirlik, a grid-down won’t affect the base directly, but there will be all sorts of trouble outside the gates...

[dfwgator]

"Welcome to our world."

[M Kehoe]

In the fwiw department, when I lived in Turkey, we were four hrs. on, and four hrs. off, when we had electricity at all.

Potable water...sometimes.

5.56mm

[Old Sarge]

:snork:

[cuban leaf]

[Zathras]

ManBearPig is in Turkey?

[Lurker]

+1.

[csvset]

Watt happen?

[Jane Long]

It’s always that guy ;-)

[healy61]

I’m going to start producing 7th century calendar. Gonna be a good seller.

[Old Yeller]

Did Iran test an EMP on Turkey?

[Psalm 73]

"Did Iran test an EMP on Turkey?"

My 1st thoughts, too - but our assets at Incirlik would have picked that up. Unless they're not sayin'

Maybe we're next?

[Truth29]

Well, if Iran and Turkey were to go at each other, that wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing.

[The Duke]

They might as well get used to it. The loss of flush toilets will be next.

[Kartographer]

Just have to leave another couple of billion dollars in military equipment behind when the SHFT.

[PoloSec]

If they can’t get the power up in a reasonable time frame or it turns out not at all then YES an EMP attack.

[KYGrandma]

Have heard from friends in Istanbul, and they seem to think is was a cyberattack. My daughter lived in Istanbul the last three years. They hardly ever lost power, but they lived in a new compound near the US Consulate.