Türkiye’s natural gas import contracts with Russia are set to expire at the end of 2025, and negotiations have accelerated as the deadline approaches. According to Turkish media reports, alongside both governments, Russia’s Gazprom and Türkiye’s state pipeline operator BOTAŞ are still at the negotiating table. As talks between Türkiye and Russia continue, two closely related developments have drawn attention: ...
On October 15, European Union energy ministers reached a draft agreement to ban Russian energy imports as of January 1, 2028. For the draft to take effect, it still needs approval from the European Parliament, with the process expected to be completed by the end of the year. Under the proposal, gas imports will only be permitted if companies can ...
An EU regulation being developed under the “REPowerEU regulation” framework now explicitly mentions TurkStream. Connecting Russia with Türkiye via 2 pipelines, TurkStream serves both domestic Turkish energy gas market and reexports to Europe. After the transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine expired on 1 January 2025, TurkStream became the only remaining major pipeline route for Russian gas into Europe. On ...
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Ukrainian army carried out an attack with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a compressor station in the Kransnodar region that supplies natural gas to the TurkStream pipeline. The statement shared that the 9 UAVs used in the attack were destroyed by air defense systems and that the pipeline continued to operate normally. ...
By Yunus Soner On November 21, The United States announced applying sanctions against the Russian Gazprombank, an entity until today excepted from Washington’s pressure. Why is the Gazprombank important? What role does it play it the Turkish-Russian relations? And even further than that, for European countries? And how can the affected countries react to it. We asked these questions to ...
By Ihsan Sefa (retired colonel, Turkish Armed Forces) The situation in the Turkish economy in recent years is far from ideal. According to the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye, inflation in August was 51.97 percent compared to August last year. Why is our economy in trouble? Türkiye is not characterized by a wealth of natural resources – a ...
By Aykut Diş The warnings of Russian president Vladimir Putin regarding the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines during the International Economic Forum meeting have become a hot topic. Putin said to the heads of international news agencies that Ukraine sees the natural gas pipelines connecting Russia to Türkiye as “targets”. Russian President also called on the journalists, saying “Please inform ...
The Russian Ministry of Defense declared that on May 24, Ukrainian forces had attacked a Russian military vessel in the Black Sea. According to the statement, three unmanned high-speed boats attacked the Russian ship Ivan Khurs. The ship foiled the attack. The Ministry said the ship’s mission was to protect the TurkStream and BlueStream pipelines. We started our interview with ...
The Serbian Center for Geostrategic Studies organized an international conference on the sabotage against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Speakers from the USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland participated in the conference. United World International author Yunus Soner made a presentation, comparing the risks for energy ties across the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. Based on US documents, Soner emphasized ...
United World International author Mehmet Perinçek elaborated on the question whether “the US can target the TurkStream after the Nord Stream?” to the Russian newspaper Vzglyad. We present the article including Mehmet Perinçek’s comment, published in Russian, to our readers translated into English. Gas pipelines running from Russia to Türkiye may repeat the fate of Nord Stream. Fears about this ...