The statement was made in Turkey’s coastal city of Antalia, in the fringes of a conference of the Russia-Turkey intergovernmental economic committee
pipeline
The TAP pipeline with a total pipeline length of 878 km, is a project worth EUR 4.5 billion and is one of the EU’s core projects in the energy sector
The consortium managing the project is attempting to assess the interest in the companies that are active in the field
Bulgaria and Serbia have already proceeded to build the infrastructure for receiving gas
If the incident is tied to Tehran it would raise questions about whether harder-liners in Iran attempt to up the ante regionally
The area has been cordoned off by the police and the military
New bipartisan legislation has been introduced in Congress to lift the American arms embargo on Cyprus
The new grouping is meant to jump-start the Eastern Mediterranean’s energy revolution
Putin is in Serbia
Turkey is now in a weakened economic and geopolitical state