The Energy Sector, Competition and Security in the Eastern Mediterranean

... the Eastern Mediterranean While other states in the Eastern Mediterranean (Israel, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece and, to some extent, Lebanon) have attempted to form alliances around the energy sector and gas exports, Turkey has remained on the sidelines. Nevertheless, both the regional reconfiguration... ... resulted in Ankara taking more active political steps and shaping its own policy in the Eastern Mediterranean. Before 2016, Turkey strove to apply the “strategic depth”... ... current policy in the Mediterranean and of the ideology of demarcating the borders with Libya. The agreements Turkey and the Libyan government concluded in late 2019 resulted...