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Massive Power Outage Paralyzes Turkey

Posted by Soulskill on from the taken-for-granted-until-it's-gone dept.

wiredmikey writes: A massive power outage caused chaos and shut down public transport across Turkey on Tuesday, with the government refusing to rule out that the electricity system had been the victim of an attack. The nationwide power cut, the worst in 15 years, began shortly after 10:30 am (0730 GMT) in Istanbul, the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted the Turkey Electricity Transmission Company (TEIAS) as saying. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said the authorities were investigating whether the power outage was due to a technical failure or cyber-attack. "It is too early to say now if it is because of a technical reason, a manipulation, a faultplay, an operational mistake, or a cyber (attack). We are looking into it... We cannot say they are excluded possibilities."

2 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Old news by itzly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Big sign of incompetence if they don't even know where to look for the problem after 12 hours.

  2. Re:I wonder what this means... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Turkey -- a Sunni Muslim country -- has always had a strained relationship with many of the other Middle East countries (many of which are Shiite Muslim). Turkey has also been buying millions of dollars worth of oil from ISIS each day -- a way to get cheap oil, and a way to support a group that is also Sunni Muslim.

    So I have to wonder if another nation has done this to punish Turkey?