Turkey is getting ready to choose a winning tender for its second nuclear plant and Istanbul’s third airport as early as tomorrow, amid a firesale of many state assets, including a key port in Istanbul and Turkey’s railroads, Two high-profile tenders are expected to be finalized tomorrow, one for Istanbul’s third airport and the other [...]
A mission of US defense and aerospace industry firms, which include Bell, Boeing and Sikorsky, will visit Istanbul and Ankara to seek local partners. The US commerce undersecretary will lead the mission. A large business mission of U.S.-based defense and aerospace companies, including world giants such as Bell Helicopter, Boeing, General Electric and Sikorsky, will [...]
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The epicenter of world diplomacy related to solving the Syrian crisis has begun to shift toward Moscow, as multiple diplomatic visitors converge on the Kremlin, beginning with U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan, followed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The busy schedule of visits can be seen as an extension of last week’s [...]
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The United States and Turkish governments in many senses rediscovered each other in 2011, achieving constructive engagement — especially in the aftermath of the people’s revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. In stark contrast, the previous year Ankara irked many in Washington with its relatively accommodating stance vis-Ã -vis Tehran. Deep tactical differences between [...]
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The Nabucco pipeline consortium submitted its bid on Saturday to export sought-after Azeri gas, claiming that it is the most viable solution for bringing energy supplies to Europe from the Caucasus region. However, Nabucco’s smaller rivals remained silent before the deadline to submit their technical and commercial proposals to Baku. Nabbuco’s offer came only a [...]
Turkey has decided that it will not renew for another five years a 25-year-old natural gas deal with Russia on the grounds that the energy-rich country’s supplier Gazprom has declined to discount the natural gas it sells to Turkey via the Russia-Turkey Western Pipeline. According to an announcement made by the state-owned Turkish Pipeline Corporation [...]
The United States on Wednesday said it wanted to see Cyprus’ resources shared between the two communities living on the island. Victoria Nuland, the spokesperson for the US State Department, said the US is interested in “revenue-sharing†as proposed by the UN. “We are interested in this proposal for UN mediation of revenue-sharing. Overall, though, [...]
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız has said that if Russia does not respond to Turkey’s demands to reduce natural gas prices, Turkey plans to terminate the contract it has with its northeastern neighbor. Speaking to reporters in Ankara on Thursday, Yıldız, in response to a question regarding natural gas prices, which have increased [...]
Turkey demanded a reduction in prices for natural gas transferred via the Western Line pipeline, Turkey’s energy minister said during a conversation with journalists on Thursday. “We asked for a reduction in the price of natural gas that we import from Russia via the Western Line,” Minister Taner Yıldız said. “And if Russia does not [...]
Turkey said on Tuesday it was exploring for gas in an offshore zone where Greek Cyprus started drilling last week, the latest step in a battle over Mediterranean resources that overshadowed the resumption of peace talks for the divided island. On Sept. 23, Turkey dispatched its only research vessel, the Piri Reis, to the eastern [...]
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