... 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 ...
... Sea. This means that the Turkish leadership in Libya protects not only the pro-Turkish GNA, but also its interests in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea.
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So Why Does Egypt Support Khalifa Haftar?
In Libya, Turkey is confronted with the interests of its foreign policy opponents; in particular, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Arab Republic of Egypt (ARE). The latter is the main ally of General Khalifa Haftar. Cairo supports the LNA, because members ...
... May 2016,
the Minister of Energy of Azerbaijan
said that Azerbaijan had received no serious proposals from these countries on joining the project.
Experts note that, from a purely economic point of view, the least expensive option is transit through Turkey (without connecting to the SGC) [
4
]. The arguments against this option will be discussed below.
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Egypt and Cyprus signed a
framework agreement in late August
Today, it is difficult to predict the prices of Eastern Mediterranean gas, as it is not yet known what the production costs will be, what kind of infrastructure will be built and, most importantly, what the situation on the European gas market will look like by the time these questions have been resolved.
The Turkish Question
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