Turkey's Energy Policy: Is The Nuclear Energy A Milestone to Defeating External Dependency? Cover Image

Türkiye’nin Enerji Siyaseti: Nükleer Enerji Dışa Bağımlılığı Yenmede Bir Kilometre Taşı mı?
Turkey's Energy Policy: Is The Nuclear Energy A Milestone to Defeating External Dependency?

Author(s): Taner Karakuzu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Trakya Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi
Keywords: Nuclear Energy in Turkey; Nuclear Energy Power Stations; Nuclear Energy Efforts of the JDP-Government

Summary/Abstract: Turkey has started to gain nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in the 1960’s. However she could not succeed in installing of any nuclear energy power stations for a quite long time. This article examines the Turkey’s efforts for errecting energy power stations, in which especially dealt with the policies of Justice and Development Party (JDP) in this respect. At the end it will be examined how far nuclear energy and weapon issues have an impact on the foreign policy of Turkey and how Ankara gets rid of its energy dependence from the outside world.

  • Issue Year: 2/2011
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 48-77
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Turkish