Azerbaijan, Baku, November 22 / Trend, A. Tagiyeva /
The growth of Turkey's economy also assumes growth of demand in energy so the use of atomic energy in the country is designed to provide its energy security, Hasan Selim Ozertem, Analyst of Turkey's International Research Center USAK, Told Trend by telephone on Tuesday.
"Turkey needs to diversify its energy resources, and nuclear energy is an additional means of energy supply," Ozertem said.
The expert noted that Turkey pursues an active policy of development of international energy projects and, apart from these projects, nuclear power engineering development has always been interesting to the country.
Turkish Prime Minister Rejjep Tayyip Erdogan reported earlier that Turkey plans to use all kinds of production of electricity in the country and explores the opportunities of nuclear power engineering development.
He said core attention in nuclear power engineering development will be paid to security issues.
Ozertem believes that the key sources for power production in Turkey is natural gas the country buys from neighboring countries, and purchase of energy from abroad is sometimes a problem. For example, gas supply from Iran was several times interrupted for certain reasons and hit the Turkish economy, he said.
"The use of nuclear power will give Turkey the opportunity to have its own energy resources," Ozertem noted.
On the other hand, use of nuclear power in Turkey contributes to development of trade.
Ozertem also noted that construction of a nuclear power plant in Turkey will strengthen the country's role in the region and create new conditions for population's employment and economic development.
Mohammed Javad Larijani, head of the Iranian Human Rights High Council and head of the Iranian Physics and Mathematics Institute told journalists earlier that Iran is ready to share its nuclear technologies with neighboring states, particularly, offers Turkey help to build a nuclear power plant.
Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz replied that Turkey has no any plans of nuclear cooperation with Iran.
The President of Russia in May 2011 signed the Law to ratify the Russian-Turkish Intergovernmental Agreement of cooperation in the field of nuclear power use for peaceful purposes.
The Agreement provides the basis for cooperation, including that in the field of construction of nuclear power plans in the territory of Turkey. The Agreement also will promote to development of cooperation in the field of nuclear power use for peace purposes with the observation of the mode of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and promotion of Russian nuclear technologies in Turkey.
At the end of 2010, Russia ratified the intergovernmental agreement with Turkey envisioning construction and operation of Turkey's first nuclear power plant at Akkuyu platform.