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The Turkish Stream: Where to go from here?
Hürriyet Daily News | January 29/2015 Mehmet Öğütçü / Danila Bochkarev | The landmark agreement on the Turkish Stream reached on Jan. 27 shows Moscow’s determination to avoid Ukrainian transit at all costs and start its implementation without delay. If all goes well, natural gas currently flowing from Russia to the EU via Ukraine will in...
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...