Sputnik: Expert Warns of Trouble With Turkey Becoming Dominant Gas Market Player
On Thursday, Russia reiterated its final decision to reject the South Stream project. Moscow is committed to diverting the gas flow to Turkey.
Turkey might eventually get control of gas flows coming from Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, and probably Iraq. However, George Hatziioannou, a retired diplomat and the current editor-in-chief of the website Energy International Risk Assessment (Eiranews.com), believes that Ankara won’t be an easy partner.
“It will turn the country overnight into an almost-dominant market player in regional energy affairs,” he told Sputnik. “In my humble opinion, this model of operations might be a bit tricky and risky. There is a fair chance that at a certain point, Ankara might try to ‘do a Ukraine’”.