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Turkey Exploring Turkstream Expansion

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An additional pipeline may be built to support Turkstream flows as part of its gas hub aspirations with Russia according Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

  • "By making this proposal [to build a gas hub in Turkey], Putin saw that a new energy map would be formed in this part of the world in the medium to long term, and Turkey is the most natural geographic location for it," Kalin said.
  • Erdogan and Putin said earlier this week of their serious intent to turn Turkey into a gas hub to redistribute Russian gas and that the set-up could be achieved in a short time frame.
  • Sceptics of the plan have called out the infrastructure hurdles to bring that gas to Europe and the willingness to develop it because of potential Russian gas sanctions in the future.

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