Ankara seeks to build nuclear weapons: Athens

[ozgurluk at xs4all.nl]

   ATHENS, July 23 (AFP) - Greek Defence Minister Akis  
Tsohatzopoulos on Thursday accused Turkey of seeking to build 
nuclear weapons, the ANA news agency reported. 
   Anakara is "on a mistaken path towards nuclear arms," he said,  
referring to Turkey's plans to build the country's first nuclear 
power plant at Akkuyu on its Mediterranean coast. 
   He said the Turks were planning to use Canadian technology for  
the construction of the plant, adding that "every country that has 
used this technology has built nuclear weapons" and gave India as an 
example. 
   Greece has repeatedly expressed concern over the Akkuyu project  
but so far this has been for ecological reasons. 
   Akkuyu is in an area hit by a lethal earthquake last month.  
   Greece's nuclear technology institute is meanwhile set to begin  
measuring radioactivity in its eastern Aegean Sea, which borders on 
Turkish waters, ahead of the planned 1999 start for construction of 
the nuclear plant. 
   Nuclear Power International, headed by Siemens of Germany and  
Framatome of France, is the leading contender for the construction 
of the plant at Akkuyu. 
   Two other consortiums, led by Westinghouse Electric Corporation  
(USA) and Atomic Energy of Canada, are also bidding in the 
multi-billion-dollar tender, which is to be concluded this summer. 
  	   	
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