World Bulletin: Turkey strategic route for European energy markets
Turkey is emerging as a strategic transit route for natural gas after the Ukraine, experts agreed in Washington D.C. on Monday during an energy conference held by the Brookings Institution, a foreign affairs think-tank.
Senior energy experts discussed Turkey’s energy policy, the importance of natural gas to the Turkish economy, the prospects for Turkey as a gas transit and emerging trading hub, and the energy dimensions of Turkish-U.S. relations, in a Brookings session entitled "Turkey’s Energy Security Calculus: Aspirations and Realities".
Gareth Winrow, an independent energy expert and a former professor with Istanbul-based Bogazici University, said Turkey has become more important as an alternative energy route to Europe since the violent political turmoil engulfed Ukraine.