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Science & Technology

Turkey to manufacture domestic passenger car
17.05.2013
Science & Technology|Middle East|Turkey

Turkey, which ranks 16th in the world in terms of the development of the automotive industry, intends to manufacture a passenger car made on a domestic production line, Anadolu agency quotes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is on an official visit to the United States, as saying.

According to Erdogan, Turkey is the second country in the world after China in terms of a growth in electricity consumption.

"Turkey has implemented a programme to increase the GDP in 2011-2017. This will result in the GDP growing by an average of 6.7 per cent," Erdogan said.

Japan to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey
07.05.2013
Science & Technology|Japan|Far East

Japan is the leading country in terms of guarantees of seismic safety of buildings and structures, which ensured its victory in the tender for the construction of nuclear power plant (NPP) in Sinop, the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey reported to RIA Novosti on Monday.

Turkey to produce Black Hawk helicopters
07.05.2013
Science & Technology|Middle East|Turkey

Turkey is going to start mass production of Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk multi-purpose helicopters previously produced in the U.S., Hurriyet newspaper reported on Tuesday.

According to the report, the helicopters will be produced by Turkey's aerospace company Türk Havacılık ve Uzay Endüstrileri (TAI) under the supervision of the Secretariat of the Defence Industry under the Ministry of Defence of Turkey.

The Black Hawk helicopters production programme has been developed in Turkey since 2011. The budget is estimated at $3.5 billion.

Turkey ready for ANKA UAV serial production
07.05.2013
Science & Technology|Middle East|Turkey

Turkey's first domestic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ANKA is ready for serial production after test flights, The Lira newspaper reported on Monday.

According to the report, Turkish aerospace company Türk Havacılık ve Uzay Sanayii A.Ş (TUSAŞ) is already receiving orders for the production of the drones and is soon starting mass production.

Work on the creation of the first Turkish reconnaissance drones has been underway since 2004. About 180 engineers have worked on the project.

Turkmenistan adopted Electoral Code
07.05.2013
Cental Asia|Science & Technology|Turkmenistan

The Majlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan at its regular meeting of the fourth convocation adopted a decision on the approval of the Electoral Code developed in accordance with international norms and standards, the Government of Turkmenistan reported on Tuesday.

EDB to provide loan for large-scale wind power plant construction in Kazakhstan
06.05.2013
Cental Asia|Kazakhstan|Science & Technology

The First Wind Power Plant Ltd. (a 100-percent subsidiary of Samruk-Green Energy LLP and the Eurasian Development Bank signed an agreement in the capital of Kazakhstan on a credit line worth 14.2 billion tenge (151.28 tenge = 1 dollar) to finance the turnkey construction of the first large wind power plant (WPP) in Kazakhstan, according to a statement by the First Wind Power Plant Ltd.

According to the statement, the wind plant will be built at the Yereimentau site (Akmola region). Its capacity will total 45 megawatts.

Iran to build fixed gamma radiation system soon
29.04.2013
Science & Technology|Iran|Middle East

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoun Abbasi announced that the country plans to design and build a center equipped with a fixed gamma radiation system in Bonab city, Northwestern Iran, in the near future, Fars news agency reported.

"The building of this center is being constructed and will be ready for inauguration by the end of the first half of this (Iranian) year (end of summer) after the necessary equipments are installed," Abbasi told reporters in Bonab city, East Azarbaijan province on Sunday night.

Iran to unveil new fighter aircraft this year
22.04.2013
Science & Technology|Iran|Middle East

Iran will unveil new fighter aircraft this year, Deputy Secretary of Defense of Iran, Majid Bokaei said, Tabnak reported.

Baokaei noted that this is one of the latest achievements of Iran in military sphere, and the aircraft will be built this year.

Several days afo Iran unveiled three more military achievements - a wireless communication system, a missile-launching system, and a T-72 tank simulation system.

Also, two new domestically manufactured unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) named "Mohajer B" and "Hazem 3" were unveiled.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurates construction of 25MW power plant in Benin
16.04.2013
Science & Technology|Iran|Middle East

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the construction work of a 25-megawatt power plant in the African state of Benin on Monday, FNA reported.

Iran's Power Plant Projects Management Company (MAPNA), one of the major general contractors of energy projects in Iran, is slated to complete Benin's power plant project in a period of about one year.

Beninese President Thomas Yayi Boni also accompanied President Ahmadinejad in the inaugural ceremony.

Iranian experts make fuel for Bushehr nuclear power plant
11.04.2013
Science & Technology|Iran|Middle East

The experts of Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) at Iran's Esfahan have managed to prepare fuel rods for Bushehr nuclear power plant, IRIB News reported.

Deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Ghannad Marageh said that the experts of Esfahan's UCF manufactured fuel rods for the Bushehr NPP, just as previously they did for the Tehran Research Reactor and the IR40 reactor in Arak.

"The work was carried out completely without any help from foreign countries," Marageh said, without revealing any more details on the issue.