The President of Turkey raises the tone on the issue of investigations in the Cypriot EEZ, stating that his country will not be left out of the developments in "southern Cyprus" and added that Barbaros will remain in the region as long as the "Greek Cypriot administration of southern Cyprus and "Greece does not take our warnings seriously."
"Turks living in Cyprus also have rights in the EEZ (Cyprus) region. They have equal rights. "I want to emphasize that we will support these rights to the end," said Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish president also said that the gas of Iraq and the Eastern Mediterranean will be channeled to the international market through Turkey. He added that during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, it was agreed to start negotiations that could lead to the permanent abandonment of South Stream and "the choice of what President Putin calls" Turkish Stream. "
This pipeline will cross the Black Sea for a while and then, through Turkey and Greece, will lead to Europe. "If we agree, we will build this pipeline, with a capacity of 63 billion cubic meters per year", he added. Speaking at the meeting of the International Oil and Gas Strategy Symposium, Erdogan said that Turkey is rapidly becoming the region's energy hub and reminded that "the oil of the Turkmen and Kazakhs is already being transported through the pipeline. "Ceyhan."
Mr. Erdogan stressed that the agreement on the operation of the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik oil pipeline has been extended for 20 years and that its capacity will be increased. The Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline and the Turkey-Greece gas interconnection have been operating since 2007. The TANAR pipeline was recently agreed to transport 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year from Azerbaijan via Turkey and Greece to Europe, the Turkish president said. Turkey is now involved in the search for oil in all parts of the world, from Azerbaijan to Iraq, from Afghanistan to Kazakhstan, from Russia to Kyrgyzstan, to Libya, to the TRNC. and Colombia, "he said.