... on key areas for cooperation. The report provides an analysis of bilateral economic ties between the two countries, strategic challenges in the Middle East, regional issues related to the Black Sea and the Caucasus and the development of a Eurasian transport corridor.
Deepening Russia-Turkey Relations
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... its location at the crossroads of different energy basins, energy-rich countries, and energy-dependent regions.
Turkey needs Syria to implement its plans to connect the Arab Gas Pipeline with its national gas system and is interested in the use of the Syrian transport infrastructure. On the other hand, the aim of Syria's energy strategy is to gain a strategic position in regional oil and gas transit, which along with the Iraqi-Syrian and Iranian-Iraqi-Syrian plans for building new transport routes could potentially ...