Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I would have thought you would cause mischief elsewhere prior to taking down the power supply as with the best will in the world you are not going to be able to do a lot of hacking if the telephone and internet are offline due to the power systems being down.
Indeed, but these attacks have long been expected and therefore mitigation is in place. That makes an attack much harder to execute, though obviously not impossible.
Critical National Infrastructure attacks are increasingly expected and this could be just such an attack. However, it might just be poor planning that allowed a local incident to become a national one. Who knows? I doubt the Turks will be publicizing it if it turns out to be a malicious event.