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The Energy Sector, Competition and Security in the Eastern Mediterranean

... Construction of the gas pipeline with a capacity of 10 billion cubic metres a year is expected to take approximately seven years. Revitalisation of Ankara’s foreign policy and regional competition in 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 and the domestic perturbations that affected Turkey in 2016 after the attempted military coup resulted in Ankara taking more active political steps and shaping its own ...

15.12.2020

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Gas Without a Fight: Is Turkey Ready to Go to War for Resources in the Mediterranean?

... Recep Erdogan’s “neo-Ottoman” foreign policy concept Active exploration of gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean has boosted the region’s importance for the local powers. Most... ... security and diversifying their sources of hydrocarbon supplies. Currently, Greece, Cyprus, France, and Italy are among the main players that have divided up the known... ... gas “pie” that the European states had divided up among themselves. This power is Turkey, which has decided to actively explore the gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean...

21.09.2020

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