Greenpeace said seven of its activists had been detained Tuesday as they scaled a tall building in Turkey's capital to protest government plans to build the country's first nuclear power plant.
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 Erdogan and Energy Minister Hilmi Guler.
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, despite strong opposition from environmentalists.
The only bidder was a partnership led by Russian state firm Atomstroyexport, whose offer of 21.16 cents per kilowatt per hour was largely deemed by experts to be too high.
According to newspaper reports, the two sides are currently holding negotiations on the price.
An earlier plan for a reactor at Akkuyu was scrapped in July 2000 amid financial difficulties and protests from environmentalists in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus.
Opponents have raised safety concerns, arguing that the proposed site is only 25 kilometres (15 miles) from a seismic fault line.
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