This was announced by Turkish energy minister Taner Yildiz.
After a meeting with Russian nuclear company Rosatom’s head Sergey Kiriyenko, the minister said: "Our target is to speed up the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant."
The nuclear plant will be located in Mersin province, along the country’s Mediterranean coast and will have four reactors for power generation.
Construction for the plant is expected to commence in 2016 follwing submission of an environmental assessment report. It is set to become operational by 2020.
Taner Yild said: "We are trying to establish a framework to implement construction license applications, land data endowments, as well as the environment assessment report and port construction. We held meetings to speed up the process."
A more comprehensive and high-level meeting regarding nuclear power generation will be held between the two countries in November this year, he added.
Turkey is intending to cut down its dependence on imports to cater to its growing power requirements – it spends almost $60bn annually for its natural gas and oil imports.
