Shafaqna Pakistan:Turkey’s strategic relationship with Pakistan raises nuclear concerns since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke openly in September about Ankara’s ambitions to pursue its own nuclear weapons programme, the Jerusalem Post said on Thursday.
Turkey already has the major elements for acquiring a nuclear capability – rich uranium deposits and the TR-1 and TR-2 Research Reactors maintained by the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority – the daily said, adding that obtaining fuel remains as the greatest challenge. But Turkey’s first nuclear power plant is now being built in partnership with Russia’s Rosatom.
Turkey’s strategic relationship with Pakistan raises nuclear concerns since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke openly in September about Ankara’s ambitions to pursue its own nuclear weapons programme, the Jerusalem Post said on Thursday.
Turkey already has the major elements for acquiring a nuclear capability – rich uranium deposits and the TR-1 and TR-2 Research Reactors maintained by the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority – the daily said, adding that obtaining fuel remains as the greatest challenge. But Turkey’s first nuclear power plant is now being built in partnership with Russia’s Rosatom.
The flourishing defence relationship – with its possible nuclear connection – in turn takes place within a broader context,” The Jerusalem Post said. Erdoğan has turned Turkey away from the West towards East, and has now turned its face toward the Islamic world and the path of political Islam, it said.