Turkey Experiencing Electricity Blackout

Turkey is currently experiencing electricity outages in many regions due to problems that occurred in the transmission lines, Turkish Electricity Transmission Company, TEIAS officials said early Tuesday.



The power outage in most of the country occurred after problems at the transmission lines started at 10.36 A.M.



TEIAS has started a technical investigation and aims to restart electricity transmission to the country as soon as possible, officials say. 



Turkey's Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz spoke during his visit to Slovakia on Tuesday at midday and said the cause is yet unknown and was unable to either confirm or deny if it was a cyber-attack that caused the outage. 



He said that what is important is to get the transmission back up and running to all regions in Turkey from the crisis center based in Golbasi district in Ankara. 



He added that transmission has already restarted to some cities.



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