Turkish Companies To Help Rescue LNG Project In Arctic Russia
August 13th, 2022
Via Radio Canada International, a report on a Turkish company’s plan to help rescue a LNG project in Arctic Russia: Big western companies are pulling out of Novatek’s grand Arctic LNG 2 project. Turkish companies, among them Karpowership, appear ready to take their place. The unprecedented Arctic industrialization that over the past years has unfolded along […]
Read more »Turkey Resumes Gas Exploration In The Eastern Mediterranean
August 12th, 2022
Via Al Jazeera, an article on Turkey’s decision to resume gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean: Nearly two years after Turkey halted offshore gas explorations in contested waters in the eastern Mediterranean, a Turkish drillship has departed from the port of Mersin to search for gas in the region. The Abdullhamid Han drillship set sail on […]
Read more »Turkey’s Economy: Growing Despite Raging Inflation
July 24th, 2022
Via The Economist, an article on howTurkey’s economy kept growing despite raging inflation: On the wall of Savas Mahsereci’s office is a black-and-white photograph of his father and grandfather making shoe soles from recycled tractor tyres. The room is upstairs from his factory on the outskirts of Gaziantep, a city of 2m people in south-eastern […]
Read more »How Turkey’s Soft Power Conquered Pakistan
July 17th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how Turkey’s TV drama “Ertugrul” reveals how neo-Ottoman fantasies are finding an enthusiastic audience in a country that struggles with Saudi and Western influence: When Esra Bilgic, the 27-year-old star of the popular Turkish television drama Dirilis: Ertugrul (“Resurrection: Ertugrul”), posted a picture of herself in a bralette and blazer on […]
Read more »Turkey, China See Opportunity In Central Asia After Moscow’s Ukraine Invasion
June 20th, 2022
Via Radio Free Europe, an article on how Turkey and China see opportunity In Central Asia after Moscow’s Ukraine invasion: Since Moscow’s February invasion of Ukraine, Central Asian governments have sought to limit their reliance on Russia and grapple with the economic fallout from economic sanctions that the Kremlin’s war has brought to their region. […]
Read more »Turkey Dreams Of A Gas Pipeline With Israel
May 24th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, an article on Turkey’s dreams of far-fetched gas pipeline with Israel: Turkey is ready for energy cooperation with Israel after years of enmity, reviving a project to pipe Israeli gas to Europe as Ankara seeks to reduce its dependence on Russia. But the plan faces Israeli scepticism over past diplomatic tensions and seems […]
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