Daily Sabah: Erdoğan Criticizes EU for Nabucco Failure

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticized the European Union for the failure of the Nabucco Project, which is a proposed natural gas pipeline from Turkey to Europe. The project was aiming to diversify the energy sources of Europe to lower dependency on Russian natural gas by reaching the Caspian Sea and the Middle East. The main suppliers were expected to be Iraq, while Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Egypt were also possible suppliers. The project, backed by the EU and the U.S., was signed in 2009; however, it has yet to be realized.

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