http://www.todayszaman.com/business_admin-of-controversial-nuclear-plant-resigns-amid-dispute_398305.html

An official from the project company behind the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project resigned from his post amid a dispute with the firms overseeing the project, according to news reports on Friday.

Akkuyu NGS Information Center Director Mehmet Faruk Uzel resigned from his position on Aug. 17 but remained silent to the public about his decision until earlier this month, when he sent a text message to news outlets announcing his resignation.

“The operations and mentality of the Russian firm overseeing the nuclear power plant constitute a very serious risk to my country and having expressed my thoughts on this matter I am resigning from the Akkuyu nuclear plant project,” Uzel said.

Following the resignation, an anonymous e-mail reached journalists claiming Uzel was guilty of corruption and embezzlement as well as sexual harassment of other company employees. Uzel firmly denied the allegations, claiming they surfaced immediately after an official from the company called him and instructed him to retract his statement or else the company would pursue a smear campaign against him.

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http://www.turkishweekly.net/2015/09/04/news/senior-manager-at-akkuyu-nuclear-project-resigns-says-turkey-shouldnt-work-with-russian-company/

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Speaking at the conference, Uzel asked how a company, which could not isolate underground water from an information center built one-meter below ground level, could build a nuclear power plant 12-meters below ground level and near the sea.

Uzel asked if it was true that Rosatom did not think to consider the shore edge line while placing reactors and thus placed one below the shore line. He added that because of this fault, the company could not continue the project and is currently waiting for a change in law to proceed.

Commenting on why the Russian company did not want to be transparent about radiation tracking and measurement, Uzel asked why they had rejected the requests of Mersin University and the representatives of the Mersin citizens about the issue.

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Turkey’s former energy minister, Taner Yıldız, said it was not possible for Turkey to cancel the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant as the project has been made upon an intergovernmental agreement between Turkey and Russia, on June 4.