article_snippet.sent: The energy minister suggested a possible failure in transmission lines.
article_snippet.sent: The energy minister did not rule out the possibility of a terror attack.
article_snippet.sent: The mysterious collapse of much of country's energy grid triggered a burst of wild conspiracy theories across social media.
article_snippet.sent: Some Twitter users went so far as to suggest the black-outs were a warm up for elections scheduled to take place in June.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, mysterious black-outs are a sore spot for some Turks, after a surreal 2014 incident on election night -- allegedly involving a feline saboteur.
article_snippet.sent: That is -- a cat that allegedly wandered into a power transformer.
article_snippet.sent: That was almost exactly a year ago, a smaller series of power outages affected some polling stations during nationwide municipal elections, prompting unsubstantiated accusations of vote rigging.
article_snippet.sent: The ruling Justice and Development Party ended up winning by a comfortable margin, but some Turks were reassured by the energy minister's explanation that the voting day black-outs were caused by a cat getting lost.