"Shaking Down the Turkic Brother? Turkey's AKP Government Obstructs Azerbaijan's Gas Outlet to Europe
By: Vladimir Socor
During a recent public debate in Brussels on Turkey's energy policies, several panelists advised Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Guler, who participated in the panel, that Ankara is 'overplaying its hand' by setting unacceptable terms for the transit of Azerbaijani gas to Europe. Such tactics in the negotiations on the Nabucco project, the panelists advised, could boomerang against Turkey's own interests. Separately from the Brussels event, Katinka Barysch, the deputy director of the London-based Center for European Reform similarly cautioned that the Turkish government would shoot itself in the foot by using the Nabucco project for political leverage on the European Union (Hurriyet, March 5)."
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