Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved an agreement between Turkey and Japan to cooperate in the field of nuclear energy, The Daily Sabah reported.
The Turkish parliament had passed into law an intergovernmental agreement to build a nuclear power plant in the Turkish province of Sinop with Japan on Tuesday.
Construction of the $20 billion plant to be built in Turkish northern province of Sinop, near the Black Sea, is expected to begin in 2017.