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Is Turkey’s Energy Leadership Over Before It Began?

IPC-Mercator Policy Brief, January 2015 Jörn Richert * A strategy is a tool for successful policy-making. It systematically connects means to political ends. A strategic vision integrates individual ends under an overarching ambition. The strategic vision of Turkey’s energy policy, as declared in the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources’ Strategic Plan for 2010–2014, […]

Russia Presses Ahead With Plan for Gas Pipeline to Turkey

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The New York Times (USA) Thursday, January 22, 2015, p. B1 Stanley Reed reported from London and Sebnem Arsu from Istanbul. London – President Vladimir V. Putin surprised the world in December when he aborted long-laid plans for a natural gas pipeline under the Black Sea to Europe, saying Russia would run pipes to Turkey […]

South Stream Alternative Seen as Paper Tiger

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The Moscow Times (Russia)  Thursday, January 22, 2015, p. 1 By Alexander Panin Although officials in Moscow have trumpeted the cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline as a major blow to Europe, energy analysts say that Russia’s alternatives are tenuous at best. After years of work on a gas pipeline meant to cross […]

PM Davutoğlu gathers with business, civil society leaders in Davos

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has gathered with leading figures of Turkey’s business world at a dinner on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

President Erdoğan grills Turkish Central Bank over interest rates

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated his long-established criticism of Turkey’s Central Bank for not reducing interest rates despite a sharp decrease in oil prices, vowing to question the Bank’s governor on the issue in person.