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Massive Power Outage Paralyzes Turkey
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."
Yeah, but they didn't have the power to get the word out sooner.
Big sign of incompetence if they don't even know where to look for the problem after 12 hours.
There was never in the history of mankind a power outage because of a cyber attack. So why this propaganda spin of a possible cyber attack?
Most likely it was because of a grid on its limits, combined with a minor/medium failure in a transmission line/power station.
...blames his opponents, the officer corps, or some expatriate mullah hiding in America for this?
Or pays his cronies billions to "fix" the grid?
This is on the heels of a stand-off that lead to the death of the Prosecutor who didn't punish cops that killed a 15 year old protestor a year ago. One can't help but wonder if this "power outage" was a ham-fisted attempt at controlling the spread of news and stifling the people's ability to communicate and organize.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
never drink kool-aid from a big vat
Come on, it's premature to blame it on Sasquatch
Table-ized A.I.
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?
Turkey is no longer what you sarcastically try to claim it is. Edrogan is actively working to turn that country back into the Ottoman shithole it was by eroding the very democracy and secular principles that's made it strong. He's destroyed the independent judiciary. He's about 80% destroyed local governments and NGOs and he's begun the press and free association clamp down. Free speech has also been targeted, directly and indirectly and he's putting religion back into the public school with state control and corruption is rampant.
By the time he's dead Turkey is going to be the same Islamic shithole the rest of the middle east is. Free thinking and acting people don't show proper "respect" to the theology and that can't be allowed. All over the middle east secular leaders and advocates are being murdered (often without consequences for the murderer) publicly and often very violently. Once the people that favor a secular government are scared into silence the Imams can make a directly play for power and take their seat at the head of society, as the believe they are entitled. Turkey is rapidly moving in this direction and it won't be long before people speaking out for secular principles are jailed or murdered for insulting either the leadership or Islam. It's already illegal to "insult" Erdogan.
The King of Jordan once said of Erdogan (I paraphrase) "democracy is like a bus to Erdogan, once he reaches his destination, he's going to get off." That pretty much sums up what a whore Erdogan is deep, down in his black little heart.