/ world today news/ Moscow’s sanctions brought Ankara a lot of problems, but even greater are the difficulties created by the successful completion of the operation of the Russian military and space forces, OilPrice wrote in an article quoted by RIA Novosti on Monday (28 March). According to the publication, the campaign has destroyed all prospects of Turkish energy.
After the conflict with Russia, the Turkish economy fell into an unenviable state, notes the author of the material. Since 2002, Turkey has been extremely dependent on Russian natural gas and oil. At the same time, the state is not particularly excited by the fact that its relations with other countries in the field of energy are poorly developed.
Hoping to reduce its dependence on Russia, Turkey signed a gas supply contract with Qatar. For the sake of this deal, Ankara took a big risk, as the gas pipeline between the two countries must pass through Syria, Iraq and the Kurdish territories.
Turkey is counting on Damascus and the Kurds to be defeated in the Syrian conflict and the distribution of power in the region will change. At the same time, in order to achieve its own goals, Ankara did not mind strengthening its ties with terrorist groups, including the Islamic State, the publication said.
But after the successful end of the Russian operation in Syria, the jihadists suffered defeat after defeat, and Ankara’s opponents strengthened their positions more and more. Russia violated the already fragile plans that Turkey was building in the field of energy, the author of the article emphasizes.
“The Russian military operation and the strengthening of the Assad regime put an end to the Turkey-Qatar gas pipeline project,” the paper concluded.
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