...Gawdat Bahgat The sharp drop in oil prices since June 2014 has drastically altered the global energy landscape. This essay examines the growing energy cooperation between Iran and Turkey and the strategic and economic implications for Europe. It argues that the emerging energy partnership between...

...George Koukoudakis The European Union should consider Turkey a core actor for implementing the Southern Energy Corridor that will serve Europe's main energy security strategy: diversification of routes and suppliers of energy. At the same time, the EU should pay attention not only to Ankara's...

...Gregory Hall; Tiara Grant Increasingly, Central Asia, and specifically the Caspian Sea Basin (CSB), is becoming a crowded place, as government officials and oil interests from European Union countries, the United States, Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, and elsewhere (including increasingly energy...

... between Turkish and Russian officials over various energy, commercial, and security issues. Fun- damentally, the relationship remains characterized by overt friendship and restrained competition. History During the Cold War, relations between Turkey and the Soviet...

...A. Murat Agdemir There have been important changes in the politics of the eastern Mediterranean since the discovery of energy resources and the disintegration of Turkish-Israeli relations. Israel upgraded its relationship with Greece and Cyprus after its ties with Turkey deteriorated. Since shortly...

... for energy extraction and transportation to markets. This essay lays out the interests of major regional players, including Europe, the United States, Greece, and Turkey, and their impact on Cyprus. Furthermore, it explains how Cyprus figures in the emerging regional energy extraction and transportation...

.... eastern Mediterranean southern Europe rimland Turkey and energy Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Petros Vamvakas is associate professor of political science at Emmanuel College, Boston. Global Stability and the Geopolitical Vortex of the Eastern Mediterranean...

... Mediterranean Quarterly: March 2018 Given its weak geostrategic position, the Republic of Cyprus has chosen to link energy issues and Turkey’s accession to the EU with the process of resolving the Cyprus problem. With this policy, Cyprus seeks Turkey’s with- drawal from the island and the resumption...

... to strengthen its nuclear energy capabilities and to consolidate its influence in Iraq, in the Persian Gulf, and in the Middle East region. What is emphasized in this essay is the increase in trade and economic relations between the two enti- 1. Bulent Aras, “Turkey and the GCC: An Emerging...

... or coherent EU policy toward Russia. Thus, the energy business has a fundamentally geopolitical purpose for Russia, as it has previoiusly admitted. On 28 June 2013 Azerbaijan announced that it would pump gas from its Shah Deniz field through Turkey to Europe via the Trans-­Adriatic Pipeline (TAP...

... to Accelerate Energy Cooperation between Turkey, Israel: Envoy,” Hurriyet Daily News, 2 March 2017, www.hurriyetdailynews.com/settlement- in- cyprus - to- accelerate- energy- cooperation- between- turkey- israel- envoy.aspx?PageID=238&NID=110323 &NewsCatID=510. 23. See World Travel and Tourism Council...

... is a lecturer at the Asian studies graduate program of Bogazici University and the coordinator of the Asian Studies Center at the same institution. Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 China and Turkey Middle East hydrocarbons Mediterranean energy China and the Mediterranean New...

...-­by-­turkey-­2 Paraschos: Offshore Energy in the Levant Basin  45 to Israel’s Leviathan field, an LNG export facility, a methanol plant, a one-­ thousand-­megawatt power plant, and a strategic gas reserve onshore. How- ever, delivery of first gas from Aphrodite is not expected...

... the Republic of Cyprus’s (RoC’s) policies by neutralizing them in ways that essentially serve Turkey’s interests. 3. The potential revenue stream created by monetization of the reserves and the savings effect of introducing natural gas to the Cypriot energy system will be — although...

.... In addition, on 6 August 2009 Prime Minister Putin concluded a series of energy agree- ments with Turkey’s premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan: “Under the deal . . . Gazprom will be allowed to proceed with seismic and environmental tests in Turkey’s exclusive economic zone, necessary preliminary steps...

... zone can transform the island into a regional energy hub and an important pillar for Europe’s energy security and diversification. At the same time, these discoveries can create an additional impetus to end the long division of the island. Ambassador Andreas D. Mavroyiannis is the permanent...

... in the prospect of hydrocarbon deposits in Cyprus's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Turkey has not recognized the EEZ of Cyprus and, for decades, has not only opposed the United Nations' Convention on the Law of the Sea but it has interpreted and attempted to distort it to make gains in its maritime conflict...

... survival. The next essay, George Koukoudakis’s “EU Energy Security and Turkey’s Contribution to the Southern Energy Corridor,” takes an optimistic look at the development of energy routes in and around the eastern Mediterra- nean. As Koukoudakis effectively shows, there are many reasons why...

... Commission in October 2005 to open accession negotiations with Turkey will have far-reaching consequences for the future of Europe and its neighborhood. The evolution of Turkey’s acces- sion negotiations with the European Union will be a test of Turkey’s ability to carry out the necessary political...

... investors in Azerbaijan for 2007 according to figures in US dollars. They are, in order, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Italy, France, and Iran. Besides the energy sector, FDI has been directed to the telecom, cement, beverage, and hotel...