The London Energy Club - Chair
Everyone in the West, from NATO to the European Union, from Biden to Scholz, is praising Ukraine’s heroic resistance against Russia as the war enters its third year, adding new ones to the unfulfilled promises of weapons and money. But things are not getting any better on the military front. It is widely expected that
This question has been puzzling me since the day it first emerged. (*) The organization, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group. Its origins lay in the Cey’ish al-Taifa al-Mansurah organization,
Cyprus is not a serious problem in the eyes of the international community today, but it remains on the agenda as the region around it begins to heat up. It will be under the spotlight again in the coming days. The United Nations’ efforts to take frozen negotiations out of the refrigerator, the Gaza drama,
The energy war, the ethnic war, the religion/sect-based war, the trade war, the technology war, the water war, the war against terrorism, and the war for regional dominance are taking place right next to us. If we cannot read these better in the light of the global struggle and strategic moves and do not take
Türkiye is surrounded by energy-rich countries and stands as one of the region’s largest energy investors, buyers, consumers, and transit nations. The energy sector involves vast sums of money, impacting vital aspects such as politics, security, trade, technology, intelligence, and finance. Türkiye, particularly dependent on foreign sources for fossil fuels, faced a 91.6 percent increase
Before the May 2023 elections, the opposition voters in Turkey focused on changing the current government, which has been trying to rule the country for more than 20 years and whose mistakes have created serious concerns about our future. In fact, a wide political spectrum ranging from right to left, ethnic nationalist to religious, which
The locals of a small village in Turkey’s Western province of Muğla, İkizköy have been in struggle with police and gendermerie for nine days to prevent their forest, the Akbelen woodland, from being cut for a thermal power plant. The conflict began when YK Energy, a subsidiary of Limak Holding and IC Holding, began to
With her exceptional education, extensive experience, and youthful dynamism, Hafize Gaye Erkan sparked enthusiasm at home as well as abroad by assuming crucial position in economic management as the new governor of the Central Bank (CBRT). However, she has come to this position at a crucial time when the Turkish economy is so fragile with
Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar; it should be considered a world-class success as Türkiye gave the good news of the Black Sea natural gas discovery in 2020 and the first stage of delivery will be yielded before the May 14, 2023, elections, as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated on April 17. A comparable
The final verdict by the International Court of Arbitration in Paris against Türkiye has further complicated the de facto controversial situation regarding the Kurdish oil exports since the creation in 1992 of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), both in Erbil, Ankara and Baghdad. as well as for foreign oil companies operating in the region. Now,