Thursday, March 29, 2012

Turkey's Attempts to Quell PKK Insurgency has Energy Implications

Turkey's Attempts to Quell PKK Insurgency has Energy Implications
By John Daly | Thu, 29 March 2012 23:21 | 0


Turkey has adopted a new strategy in its bid to solve its Kurdish “issue.”

Ankara’s outreach initiative has enormous energy implications, as Turkey currently imports 90 percent of its energy supplies and many pipelines run through Turkey’s eastern Kurdish regions, a tempting target which Kurdish militants have attacked in the past.

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