Marmara Blackout Of 2012
The Marmara blackout of 2012 is a widespread power outage that began at 13:43 local time (East European Time, EET, UTC+2), 14 January to 27 April 2012 throughout parts of the Marmara Region of Turkey. The affected area includes parts of Istanbul, the most densely populated city, and Kocaeli Province, Kocaeli where the vast majority of the country's industry is located. The blackout knocked out metro and tram operation in Istanbul, 104 days fully restored.} References

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Turkey Marmara Region
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ...
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