Energy security strategy and its impact on Turkish foreign policy

Abstract EN

Turkey, like other emerging countries, seeks to achieve energy security in a way that guarantees the achievement of political and economic goals established in the present and future, but the lack of locally produced quantities of oil and gas compared to the volume of annual increasing consumption has made Turkey rely heavily on importing these two suppliers from abroad, and this is what made Achieving energy security for it is a very important and sensitive matter, given that the effort to achieve energy security is linked to the internal and external conditions surrounding Turkey and how to direct her foreign policy, which necessitates it to take these parameters into consideration when developing its energy strategies.