Turkey Is Taking Flight 4 décembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: oil
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The Wall Street Journal Europe (USA) Thursday, December 4, 2014, p. 32
Richard Barley
Energy united Russia and Turkey this week, as Moscow scrapped a planned naturalgas pipeline to the European Union in favor of a link to Turkey. But the price of energy, and oil in particular, is driving the two countries’ outlooks apart. (suite…)
Oil Fuels the War Between Kurds and Islamic State 24 novembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: conflict, Iraq, ISIS, Kurds, oil, Syria
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The Wall Street Journal (USA) 24 novembre 2014, p. A10-11
By Sam Dagher, Al-Yaroubiyah, Syria
Russia pushing to shore up influence over Caspian Sea 5 octobre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Central Asia / Asie Centrale, Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Azerbaijan, Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan, oil, pipeline, trans-Caspian pipeline, Turkmenistan
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Nikkei Report (Japan) October 4, 2014
Jacopo Dettoni, Contributing writer
Almaty, Kazakhstan — Russia has strengthened its influence over oil and gas exports from the Caspian region after a summit with the other four nations bordering the inland sea produced an outline agreement on the key principles to regulate maritime frontiers in the basin. (suite…)
With Kurdish oil comes the tantalising possibility of a new Middle Eastern axis 27 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Iran, Iraq, Israël, Kurdistan Regional Government, oil
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The Jewish Chronicle (Israel) June 27, 2014, p. 24
By Anshel Pfeffer
It would be premature to herald the offloading in Israel of a million barrels of oil from Kurdish Iraq last weekend as the start of a grand new alliance in the Middle East. (suite…)
Turkish energy club to discuss game changing developments 26 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Bosphorus Energy Club, Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, Mehmet Ögütçü, oil
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Anadolu Agency (Turkey) Thursday, June 26, 2014 Türkçe
By Selen Tonkus, Istanbul
The Bosphorus Energy Club is to bring together world’s energy actors to discuss game changing developments. Turkish energy interest group, The Bosphorus Energy Club will bring together representatives from government and private sector throughout the world on Friday. (suite…)
Turkish Kurdish Energy Cooperation in the Iraqi Conundrum 19 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Craig Bonfield, Iraq, ISIS, Kurdistan Regional Government, oil
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Turkey Update (CSIS) Jun 19, 2014
Turkey Project ~ Center for Strategic and International Studies
By Craig Bonfield *
Amidst calls for unity in the face of major sectarian violence following the sudden occupation of several major cities in Iraq by the extreme radical Sunni group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil continues its efforts to transport and sell oil through Turkey independent of the central government in Baghdad led by Shia Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. (suite…)
The Kurdish moment in the Middle East 19 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Iran, Iraq, Kirkuk, Kurds, Ofra Bengio, oil
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Jerusalem Post (Israel) Thursday, June 19, 2014, p. 14
Ofra Bengio *
In an interview with Rudaw Huseyin Celik, a spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) stated that « the Kurds of Iraq can decide for themselves the name and type of the entity they are living in. » (suite…)
Kurdish oil and a value vacuum 11 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Chris Cook, Iraq, J. Millard Burr, Kurdistan Regional Government, oil
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Asia Times Online (Hong Kong) June 11, 2014
By Chris Cook *
Few observers have picked up on the importance of the dispatch in late May from Ceyhan, Turkey to an unidentified European destination and buyer of a cargo of 1 million barrels of Kurdish crude oil, but one who did was J Millard Burr in a recent article « Kurdistan Oil Export: A Game Changer ». (suite…)
Turkey’s Kurdish Lifeline? 2 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, oil, Syria
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The Majalla (UK, UAE) Monday, 2 June, 2014
Yerevan Saeed *
In its quest to break its dependence on Iranian and Russian hydrocarbons, Turkey gambles on Kurdistan. Ankara’s growing energy ties with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region may well secure its energy future, but comes with two challenges: resolving the longstanding conflict with Turkey’s own Kurdish population, as well as minimizing the disruption of regional and international ties. (suite…)
Russian Oil to Feature in Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline—Circumventing Possible Sanctions? 1 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Energy / Energie, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, BTC, Eurasia Daily Monitor, John C. K. Daly, oil, oil pipeline
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Eurasia Daily Monitor (The Jamestown Foundation) Vol. 11, Issue 101, May 30, 2014
By John C. K. Daly
In a surprising turnaround of previous policy, Russia’s Lukoil announced on May 16 that its oil will soon be delivered to Europe via the 1,093-mile-long, 1.2 million-barrel-per-day Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. (suite…)
Global Turkey in Europe II. Energy, Migration, Civil Society and Citizenship Issues in Turkey-EU Relations 7 mai 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Immigration, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: Ahmet İçduygu, Anna Triandafyllidou, Ayhan Kaya, Ayla Gürel, Civil Society, Daniela Huber, David Koranyi, Eduard Soler i Lecha, elections, EU enlargement, Euroscepticism, Fiona Mullen, Fuat Keyman, Gerald Knaus, Global Turkey in Europe, Gonul Tol, IAI Research Papers, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Jan Tasci, Juliette Tolay, Mehmet Dogan Üçok, Meltem Müftüler-Baç, migration, Nathalie Tocci, natural gas, Nicolò Sartori, oil, pipeline, Raffaele Marchetti, refugees, research paper, Senem Aydın Düzgit, Syria
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IAI Research Papers (Istituto Affari Internazionali) No. 13, April 2014, 246 p.
edited by Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Daniela Huber, Meltem Müftüler-Baç, E. Fuat Keyman, Jan Tasci and Nathalie Tocci *
The EU, Turkey, and their common neighborhood are changing rapidly and deeply, exposing the European-Turkish relationship to new challenges and opportunities in diverse policy areas such as energy, migration, citizenship and civil society. (suite…)
Turkish-Azerbaijani Energy Relations 9 avril 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Energy / Energie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Azerbaijan, Bülent Aras, GTE Policy Briefs, Istituto Affari Internazionali, natural gas, oil, oil pipeline, pipeline
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GTE Policy Brief (Istituto Affari Internazionali) No. 15, April 2014, 6 p.
by Bülent Aras *
Turkish-Azerbaijani relations are currently taking shape based upon energy relations. This development is based on the two countries’ priorities in foreign policy and regional politics, underpinned by the mutual political will to maintain relations at this level. (suite…)
Untangling the Turkey-KRG Energy Partnership: Looking Beyond Economic Drivers 26 mars 2014
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Gonul Tol, GTE Policy Briefs, Iraq, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Kurdistan Regional Government, natural gas, oil
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GTE Policy Brief (Istituto Affari Internazionali) No.14, March 2014, 6 p.
by Gönül Tol *
For decades, Turkey viewed Iraq primarily through the lens of its own Kurdish problem. In the aftermath of the first Gulf War, Ankara shunned direct contact with Iraqi Kurds and opposed the incorporation of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk into a Kurdish federal state, fearing that it would strengthen Iraqi Kurds’ drive for independence (suite…)
Turkey’s Potential Role in the Emerging South-Eastern Mediterranean Energy Corridor 18 mars 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Cyprus, Elif Burcu Günaydin, IAI Working Papers, Israël, Istituto Affari Internazionali, natural gas, oil, pipeline, South-Eastern Mediterranean
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IAI Working Papers (Istituto Affari Internazionali) 14|05, March 2014, 20 p.
by Elif Burcu Günaydın *
South-Eastern Mediterranean gas findings have raised much interest in recent years. Even though the estimated quantity of reserves is not globally significant, it is enough to be a regional game changer, promising a considerable amount of gas surplus to be exported. The main export route and potential customers are still being debated. (suite…)
Erbil Sends Oil, Ankara Gets Trouble 28 février 2014
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, EU / UE, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: IAI Working Papers, Iraq, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Kurdistan Regional Government, natural gas, oil, Olgu Okumuş
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IAI Working Papers (Istituto Affari Internazionali) 14|02, 28 February 2014, 9 p.
by Olgu Okumuş *
Since the international media reported crude oil flowing from the KRG to Turkey, doubts about the act’s legality, political acceptability and opacity have surfaced. This oil trade is commercially enticing for energy-hungry Turkey, but is also politically risky. (suite…)
The Kurds: new perspectives? 14 août 2013
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ben Smith, House of Commons, Iran, Iraq, Kurdish regional government, Kurds, oil, PKK, Syria
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House of Commons (UK) Standard notes SN06708, 14 August 2013
Ben Smith
The Arab uprisings and, in particular, the Syrian conflict have thrown most assumptions about the region and its borders into doubt, with relevance to the stateless Kurdish people. (suite…)
Turkey oil deal signals end of post-Ottoman empire order 20 mai 2013
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, Middle East, oil, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) Monday, May 20, 2013, p. 2
By David Gardner in London
Confirmation that Turkey plans to buy into the oil and gas wealth of the self-governing Kurdish region of northern Iraq has led to warnings – most stridently from the US – that Ankara is gambling with the break-up of Iraq. (suite…)
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict 10 avril 2013
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, Energy / Energie, Russia / Russie.Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Elizabeth Fuller, Georgia, IAI Working Papers, Iran, Istituto Affari Internazionali, nago, natural gas, oil, pipeline, Russia, Turkey
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IAI Working Papers (Istituto Affari Internazionali) 13/12, April 2013, 11 p.
by Elizabeth Fuller *
The over-riding objective of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy has been to secure a solution to the longstanding conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh on Azerbaijan’s terms. (suite…)
Turkey dares to dream again of greater sway in oil-rich lands 20 mars 2013
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: energy, Iraq, Kurds, oil, PKK, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) Wednesday, March 20, 2013, p. 2
By Daniel Dombey in Istanbul
President Lyndon Baines Johnson used to say he had one great skill: an understanding of power, « where to look for it and how to use it ». As events this week are likely to demonstrate, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, believes he has the same gift. (suite…)
Kurdistan begins exporting oil directly abroad 10 janvier 2013
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: export, Genel Energy, Iraq, Kurdish regional government, oil, pipeline
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Financial Times (UK) Thursday, January 10, 2013, p. 3
By Guy Chazan in London
Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan has begun exporting oil directly to international markets, in an important step towards asserting its economic independence from Baghdad. (suite…)
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