7 activists detained in capital demo

Agence France-Presse

Two campaigners suspended themselves from the top of the building, but police stopped them unfurling a banner reading "Nuclear Crime" with a picture of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Energy Minister Hilmi Güler. Other protesters outside the building brandished banners that read "Stop Nuclear Crime" and distributed pamplets on nuclear power.

Turkey last year invited bids to build a 4,800-megawatt nuclear power plant at Akkuyu, in Mersin province on the Mediterranean coast.

The only bidder was a partnership led by Russian state firm Atomstroyexport, whose offer was largely deemed by experts to be too high.Opponents have raised safety concerns, arguing that the proposed site is only 25 kilometers from a seismic fault line.