Blackout Leaves 20 Million People in Turkey in Dark

A technical failure has left most of Istanbul and north-western Turkey without electric power, reports CNN Turk Saturday.

Millions in the central part of Istanbul, Turkey's most populous city (pop. 9 M), were left in the dark.

The outage is reported to have also affected regions around Istanbul in Turkey's European and Asian parts, such as Edirne, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Kirklareli and Tekirdag, encompassing an estimated 20 million people.

Unconfirmed reports have it that the blackout has been caused by excessive snowfall, which occasioned a failure at a power plant in the city of Bursa.

Bulgarian Focus Information Agency reported that Turkey reacted by importing electricity from Bulgaria.

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