"This is a port area, and no one who has not passed security checks can enter there. Whether it is a government employee, an employee or a business owner, they cannot enter. All possibilities, of course, will be evaluated, but this possibility [sabotage] is considered as a weaker one," Guldal said, as quoted by media.
A blast hit the port city in western Turkiye on Monday, damaging elevators at the moment of loading a vessel with grain and injuring at least 12 people. A source in Turkiye’s Coast Guard told Sputnik that the explosion did not damage any ships in the port.