"Energy... Turkey's Trump Card in EU Membership Talks
Murat Yetkin
Columnist Murat Yetkin comments on Turkish-EU relations and the role Turkey needs to play in the distribution and protection of energy reserves in the region. A summary of his column is as follows:
“According to Energy Minister Hilmi Guler, the issue of energy will be Turkey’s greatest advantage in our EU membership talks. In his statement on our energy policy, Guler noted that Turkey has already become an important corridor through which energy reserves are transferred, and explained why the issue of energy plays such a significant role in our relations with the EU:
‘Turkey has strategic importance both as a corridor and as a terminal for energy. Ceyhan is already a significant energy terminal. When the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan pipeline is complete, we will further strengthen our position on both ends. By the end of June, we’ll have gotten oil flowing from Georgia to Turkey."
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