Posted on 03/31/2015 10:56:30 AM PDT by Kartographer
Official won't rule out cyberattack
The Turkish capital, Ankara, some 250 miles from Istanbul, was also affected. The outage extended to 45 of Turkey's 81 provinces.
Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu Agency quoted Energy Minister Taner Yildiz as saying the cause of the outage was unknown. Yildiz, speaking during a visit to Slovakia, said he could neither confirm nor deny that a cyberattack had triggered the blackout, the Anadolu Agency reported.
Flightradar24, which maps real-time flight data on the Internet, tweeted that the outage was "affecting flights," and said 11 of its 16 air traffic monitoring systems receivers -- as distinct from the country's air traffic control system -- were not working.
The Turkish Electricity Transmission Co. blamed the outage on a problem with transmission lines, Anadolu Agency reported. The utility said an investigation was in progress, as were efforts to restore power, the news agency said.
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Preppers’ PING!!
Don’t they know the first official thing to do is deny that it’s terrorism? /as if it should be necessary
Has he considered incompetence and stupidity as a possible cause?
The outage began at 10:36 a.m...
By midafternoon Tuesday, Yildiz said 90% of Istanbul’s power had been restored.
Nonsense. Turkey is just participating in Green Earth day (or whatever they are calling it).
Another story here:
According to John Kerry, it's probably just due to "the will of Allah"...
I forgot where the other thread was, and I'm too lazy to look for it.
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Before they even know anything, they always denounce that it was “terrorists”.
Why not just say “Keebler elves are suspected”.
Just working the kinks out for Project Nighty-night USA.
That’s my thoughts as well.
Or maybe just 3rd world muzzie a-holes are too busy plotting jihad to maintain the grid.
Maybe National Geographic Channel is filming a new movie:
Armenian Blackout
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