A giant power outage in Turkey is paralyzing the country and forcing confused locals to ride the bus instead of the tramway and metro. <br /><br /> Blackouts crippled dozens of cities including Istanbul and the capital Ankara. <br /><br /> Local media say this is Turkey’s biggest power outage in over a decade.<br /><br /> It started shortly after 10:30 in the morning, closing down tram and metro lines, switching off traffic lights and causing traffic jams.<br /><br /> Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it could be just a technical glitch but that all possible causes were being examined, including terrorism. <br /><br /> The blackouts have forced millions of locals to find alternative itineraries, and the energy ministry has set up a crisis center to look into the problem.
