By Doğan Akdeniz The crisis that began in the Strait of Hormuz on February 28, 2026, has gone far beyond a conventional regional tension, creating a systemic rupture for the global economy. The disruption of a critical choke point that carries roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply and two-thirds of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade represents a manifestation ...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, from Athens / Greece The Greek government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, by common consent one of the worst in Greek history (*), is now triumphantly claiming a major success by making Greece a “hub” for American LNG. In the past, starting with Spyros Markezinis in the 1950s and continuing with the governments of Konstantinos Karamanlis, Andreas Papandreou, and ...
Russian President Putin’s proposal to establish a gas energy hub in Türkiye is in negotiations between the Russian company Gazprom and Turkish BOTAŞ, state-owned-entreprise responsible for transportation and sale of natural gas. We spoke about the idea of becoming an energy hub with Professor Şenay Yalçın from the Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul. An Yalçın spend his entire academic life researching ...