President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye said during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek that Ankara and Moscow were looking forward to the opening of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and would take further joint steps in this direction.
During the meeting, Erdoğan said: “The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant is of great importance in our relations. We have reached the stage of completing the first reactor. We are awaiting the opening and commissioning of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. Once it is opened, we will discuss the steps to be taken in this direction.”