Turkey and the Geopolitics of Turkmenistan's Natural Gas
Article from: OGEL 2 (2005), in Geopolitics of Energy
Abstract
Turkey's enhanced geopolitical significance in the post-Cold War era is evident from an examination of the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP) project for natural gas from Turkmenistans. This article looks at Turkmenistan's situatio1l within the Turkey-Russia-Iran triangle, examines the negotiations among different stake-holders with a focus on the first half of calendar year 2000, and contextualizes the analysis in a series of interrelated regional and global contexts including South Asia and Central Asia. It emerges from the analysis, that among Russia, Turkey and Iran, Russia is ...