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Analyses | | Adam Michalski, Marcin Popławski

Problematic diversification Turkeys gas agreement with Turkmenistan

On 11 February, Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar, announced the signing of an agreement between the state-controlled energy company BOTAŞ and Turkmenistan’s Türkmengaz. Under this swap contract,…
OSW Commentary | | Zuzanna Krzyżanowska

On the trail of the grey wolf pan-Turkism in Turkeys foreign policy

Ankara’s active policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia is linked among other things with pan-Turkism, an idea which advocates the integration of the Turkic nations. It is continuously present in the political culture of the Turkish state…
OSW Commentary | | Krzysztof Strachota

Islamic State-Khorasan global jihads new front

The attack on the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk on 22 March which claimed the lives of 139 individuals was another spectacular terrorist attack carried out by Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) in recent months.[1] The previous attacks…
Analyses | | Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Adam Michalski

The start of a process Turkey and Turkmenistan are planning gas cooperation

On 20 March, Turkey’s minister of energy and natural resources, Alparslan Bayraktar, announced that the country was set to receive up to 2 bcm of Turkmen gas “in the initial stage” under a memorandum of understanding signed at the…
OSW Commentary | | Wojciech Górecki, Mateusz Chudziak

The pan-Turkic Caucasus The Baku-Ankara alliance and its regional importance

The Nagorno-Karabakh war of autumn 2020 and the military parade organised in Baku after its end, which was jointly hosted by the presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkey, Ilham Aliyev and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, highlighted the potential of the…
Point of View | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

The Southern Gas Corridor The Azerbaijani-Turkish project becomes part of the game between Russia and the EU

The crisis in EU-Russia relations over Ukraine has made the two players interested in the Southern Gas Corridor once again.
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

The launch of the modified Southern Gas Corridor

The construction of the second branch of the Baku–Tbilisi–Erzurum gas pipeline began on 20 September in Baku.
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Turkey is filling the gap being left by the West in the Southern Corridor

Western firms are withdrawing from projects linked to the Southern Corridor probably due to the declining commercial attractiveness of these projects.
OSW Commentary | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Southern Gas Corridor managed by Azerbaijan and Turkey

The Southern Gas Corridor is a European Commission initiative with the aim of facilitating the diversification of the routes and sources of gas imported into Europe in the hope of reducing the EU’s dependence on Russia. Although the…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Turkey and Azerbaijan sign gas transit deals

On 26 October, Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a number of complex agreements determining the rules for the transit, supply volumes and prices of gas which Azerbaijan exports to Turkey (these documents had been undergoing negotiation for…