Russia and Turkey: Approaches to Regional Security in the Middle East

... civilian use. This is corroborated by Moscow’s projects to build nuclear power plants (NPP) across the world, including in the Middle East. In particular, Russia took part in building the region’s first NPP, to the IAEA’s requirements, in the Iranian city of Bushehr [ 26 ]. More nuclear power units are expected to be built in the country. Russia’s state-owned corporation Rosatom has also begun building the Akkuyu NPP in Turkey and the El Dabaa NPP in Egypt. Russia is participating in the tender for building an NPP in Jordan [ 127 ], while it is also in talks with Saudi Arabia and has reached a number of agreements with the United Arab Emirates [ 28 ].[28] ...