How has Türkiye become the most geostrategically important actor in the global system? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The Ukraine War, the genocidal war in Gaza, the subsequent 12-day wars, and the U.S.-Iran war have ushered the global system into a period of restructuring, particularly in terms of energy supply security and logistical realities. This global rupture, deepened by the ...
The emerging picture shows that Türkiye has moved beyond its traditional role as a “transit/bridge country.” By Doğan Akdeniz The crisis that began in the Strait of Hormuz on February 28, 2026, has gone far beyond a conventional regional tension, creating a systemic rupture for the global economy. The disruption of a critical choke point that carries roughly one-fifth of ...
From the “independence” to the “dependence” pipelines By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, from Athens / Greece The Greek government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, by common consent one of the worst in Greek history (*), is now triumphantly claiming a major success by making Greece a “hub” for American LNG. In the past, starting with Spyros Markezinis in the 1950s and continuing with the ...
Russian President Putin’s proposal to establish a gas energy hub in Türkiye is in negotiations between the Russian company Gazprom and Turkish BOTAŞ, state-owned-entreprise responsible for transportation and sale of natural gas. We spoke about the idea of becoming an energy hub with Professor Şenay Yalçın from the Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul. An Yalçın spend his entire academic life researching ...