"Another Success and a New Challenge for Turkey's Gas Diplomacy
Andrea Bonzanni | 02 Sep 2009
World Politics Review
Less than a month after making progress on the Nabucco pipeline deal, which has now secured half of the gas needed to fill it, Turkey signed another natural gas agreement in early August that will allow access into Turkish territorial waters to the South Stream pipeline. South Stream, a Russian-Italian venture, is designed to bring Russian gas to Bulgaria while bypassing troublesome transit countries on the route between the Russian Federation and the European Union. A few days later, Turkey also held discussions with the emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, on pipeline and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, as well as with Syrian Petroleum Minister Sufian Al-Allao on network interconnections that may carry Egyptian natural gas to Turkey."
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