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For shale gas to take off in Turkey, better incentives and environmental regulations needed
Danila Bochkarev, Senior Fellow, EastWest Institute (Brussels) Mehmet Öğütçü, President, the Bosphorus Energy Club (London/Istanbul) Clearly, energy is Turkey’s softbelly and it needs to be enhanced through new sources including shale gas. The country is in dire need of energy supplies to fuel its rapidly growing economy – despite some difficulties Turkey’s GDP still grew...
The Syria Conflict and the Geopolitics of the Region
Published by: IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2014 print issue. Jane Kinninmont, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Head, MENA Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham, House, London. The Syrian civil war had forced 2.7 million Syrians to register as refugees outside the country between 2011 and May 2014. This is equivalent to more than half the number...
Can Iraq Be Saved?
Published by: nationalinterest.org Zalmay Khalilzad, June 17, 2014. “The situation in Iraq, as well as the one in Syria, demonstrates that the United States cannot wish away the problems of the Middle East.” The sudden fall of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and large swaths of the country’s Sunni regions to groups of insurgents and extremists...
TURKMENISTAN’S ASIAN PIVOT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN ENERGY DYNAMIC*
Published by Caspian Center for Energy and Environment June 2014 | No.7 Background In the past month, the international spotlight has been on the 400 billion USD gas deal reached between Russia and China. In the context of broader geo-political and economic developments, though, this focus has neglected to properly account for the ambitious announcement...
The Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Preliminary Reflections on Turkey’s Policy
Published by The German Marshall Fund of the United States – June 6, 2014 – By Şaban Kardaş. Summary: Turkey realizes that the Russia-Ukraine crisis has to be dealt with through the involvement of the major powers, and it is acting accordingly. Turkey has warned against the “domino effects” of the Crimean crisis, reflecting its deep...
Turkey-Kurdish Regional Government Relations After the U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq: Putting the Kurds on the Map?
– Published by www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army – Authored by Bill Park. – Added March 12 2014 – The withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq at the end of 2011 left behind a set of unresolved problems in the relationship between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and the Federal Government in Baghdad, compounded by Erbil’s subsequent pursuit of...
Turkey and Russia’s Age-Old Struggle for Regional Supremacy
Published by www.foreignaffairs.com MAY 12, 2014 By Akin Unver The Ottoman Empire’s loss of Crimea to the Russian Empire in 1783 was a turning point in both civilizations’ histories. For the Ottomans, it was the first permanent loss of a major Muslim territory to a Christian power, in this case Catherine the Great’s Russia, which, like...
The Crimean Standoff: Implications for Turkey
EDAM Discussion Paper Series 2014/2 The Crimean Standoff: Implications for Turkey Can Kasapoğlu Research Fellow, EDAM Faculty Member, Girne American University F. Doruk Ergun Research Assistant, EDAM Download the pdf document: Crimea_Turkey Introduction Standing in between the West and Russia, Ukraine’s geostrategic significance for these two rivaling powers is matched by few others. But as a...
Turkey and the New Energy Politics of the Black Sea Region
BST – Kadir Has Üniversitesi – CIES | www.academia.edu | Mitat Çelikpala | January 2013 | Turkey signed two significant energy agreements at the end of 2011. As a consequence, theseaccords set off a new competition for natural gas-centered energy projects around Turkey. Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Iran and the European Union are the main actors in this contest.This...