TURKISH-RUSSIAN ENERGY RELATIONSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY
TURKISH-RUSSIAN ENERGY RELATIONSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Author(s): Sina Kısacık, Mesut Hakkı CAŞIN
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Energy and Environmental Studies, International relations/trade, Geopolitics
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: energy; Russia; Turkey;
Summary/Abstract: Turks and Russians have clashed for about two centuries throughout the Ottoman Empire and Tsarist Russia. Nevertheless, succeeding in the October 1917 Red Revolution, they began to advance compelling relationships between the ages of the Türkiye and the Soviet Union (SU). Notwithstanding locating at unlike ideological sites all over the Cold War, they have been up to advance energy-grounded relationships thus far fruitfully. Ensuing the descent of SU, even if they have been antagonizing on numerous local security questions comparable to Georgia, Ukraine and Syria, Türkiye and Russia have been able to constitute fresh energy partnerships extending from natural gas (NG) to nuclear in which this collaboration stands profoundly disapproved by the Euro-Atlantic Bloc founding on reducing Russian impact on the world energy market. In the near and middle terms, this energy-grounded relationship is anticipated to be more extended by original initiatives because of the jointly ongoing inclination concerning this subject amid Ankara and Moscow and the driving of conjunctural progress within the Eurasian geopolitics.

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