Turkey is in preliminary talks with France for the construction of a nuclear power plant but Japan has the priority, Anatolia news agency quoted Turkey's energy minister as saying Friday.
Turkey
is in
preliminary talks with
France
for
the construction of a nuclear power plant but
Japan
has
the priority,
Anatolia
news agency quoted
Turkey
's
energy minister as saying Friday.
France has expressed interest in building the plant and French energy companies
Areva, Electricite de France SA (EDF.FR) and GDF Suez SA (GSZ.FR) have
submitted proposals, Taner Yildiz said, without elaborating.
"We are evaluating this on the condition that talks with
Japan
have
the priority," he said, according to
Anatolia
.
Last month,
Turkey
and
Japan
signed a memorandum on civil nuclear co-operation, a step towards a possible
$20 billion deal for Japanese companies to build a nuclear plant at Sinop, on
Turkey
's
Black
Sea
coast.
The non-binding deal was agreed after similar negotiations with
South
Korea
hit snags on some key terms,
including the price of the electricity the plant would produce, officials said.
This week, a Turkish official confirmed that EDF had expressed interest in the
project.
If the talks with
Japan
fail,
Turkey
may
eventually turn to EDF but "other issues" could also be taken into
consideration, the source said.
Turkish-French ties have been poisoned by
France
's
vocal opposition to
Turkey
's
European Union membership bid and the French parliament's recognition of
Ottoman massacres of Armenians during World War I as "genocide."
Overriding opposition from environmentalists,
Turkey
signed a deal worth $20 billion with
Russia
in
May to build the country's first nuclear power plant, at Akkuyu on the southern
Mediterranean coast.
Turkey
's
objective is to have nuclear plants up and running in at least two regions in 2023.
It abandoned an earlier plan to build a nuclear plant at Akkuyu in 2000 amid a
severe financial crisis and protests from environmentalists.
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