Research Report: The Evolution of EU-Turkey Energy Cooperation

December 2020

Abstract

"Energy" has always played an important role in the EU-Turkey relations. Because of its geographical and strategic location, Turkey has a crucial position to vary European countries supply of natural gas and oil. In this research, historical cooperation of EU-Turkey in the whole energy sector is analyzed. Despite numerous energy collaborations in which mutual gains have been achieved in the past; EU-Turkey relations is at an important breaking point today. While Turkey’s south coast Eastern Mediterranean is becoming increasingly an area of conflict, its northern coast has a potential to lead a way of regional cooperation. In this context, Eastern Mediterranean conflict and Black Sea gas potential are examined in a detail in this study. 

Keywords: Black Sea Gas, Eastern Mediterranean, Energy, EU, Turkey

Oxford Talks: 

Energy Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean: Cooperation or conflict?

Speakers: Bill Kappis (University of Buckingham); Okan Yardımcı (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Chair: Charles Enoch (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Date: February 12, 2020 @ 17:00

Venue: South East European Studies Centre, University of Oxford, 62 Woodstock Road, OX2 6JF, Oxford, UK

Event page: https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2388ff64-b122-4bf8-85fc-41b52325fb54/ 
Brief summary of talks: https://seesoxblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/energy-dynamics-in-eastern.html
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vimiqfv0SmI

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