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Engineer Güner Merdan from the Chamber of Electrical Engineers says, “These electric poles were set up 15-20 years ago. If you do not carry out maintenance or fix the decayed parts at regular intervals, this will be the result.”

Amid a days-long power cut in the city, Isparta Governor Ömer Seymenoğlu has been removed from office on the stated grounds that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Central governor Osman Kaymak has been appointed in his place.

Arriving in Isparta, where the electricity has been off for 4 days, Energy Minister Dönmez says 20,000 subscribers cannot be provided with electricity. The Governor’s Office dismisses the allegations that the death of one person is related to the power cut.

The opposition has slammed the government for not using natural gas storage facilities in full capacity.

Closing the Urfa-Mardin Highway to traffic in southeast Turkey in protest against the power cuts of the Dicle Electricity Distribution Inc. (DEDAŞ), farmers have been subjected to the intervention of the gendarmerie with pepper gas.

HDP MP Uca has submitted a Parliamentary question and asked who is responsible for the death of 16-year-old Üke, who lost his life while trying to draw water from a canal with a bucket in Yeniçağlar, one of the villages facing a power cut in the southeast.

Power is out in Mardin very often. No matter winter or summer, it is sometimes not back on for hours and hours. And people really panic when power is out. Because they are afraid that they cannot meet their needs.

Main opposition CHP MP Tanal has appealed to the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) and complained about the power cuts of Dicle Electricity Distribution Inc. (DEDAŞ), which has also seized the money given to farmers as agricultural support.