Turkmenistan

November 22, 2021

Turkmenistan-Iran Energy Cooperation in the Context of Natural Gas Pipelines

Diplomatic relations between Turkmenistan and Iran started with Turkmenistan’s independence in 1991 and Iran was one of the first countries who recognized the sovereignty of Turkmenistan. From this date on, an intense relationship has started to be established between the two countries in the fields of energy, infrastructure and economy. […]
October 26, 2021

Bringing Turkmen Gas to the European Market: Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline

According to the British Petroleum (BP) Statistical Review, Turkmenistan is the world’s fourth-largest natural gas giant with proven natural gas reserves of 19.5 trillion cubic meters, after Russia (38 trillion cubic meters), Iran (32 trillion cubic meters) and Qatar (24.7 trillion cubic meters). Thus, Turkmenistan ac-counts for 9.8% of the […]
October 22, 2021

Energy Policies of Turkmenistan: Importance and Perspectives of TAPI Natural Gas Pipeline

According to the BP Statistical Review, Turkmenistan is the world’s fourth-largest natural gas giant with proven natural gas reserves of 19.5 trillion cubic meters, after Russia (38 trillion cubic meters), Iran (32 trillion cubic meters) and Qatar (24.7 trillion cubic meters). Thus, Turkmenistan accounts for 9.8% of the world’s proven […]
October 24, 2020

Positive Neutrality Based on Gas Exports: Overview of Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy

Turkmenistan, under its first president Saparmurat Niyazov, proclaimed its permanent neutrality status on December 12, 1995, when the UN General Assembly adopted a special resolution on the issue, which was backed by a relevant constitutional law. Since then, the doctrine of ‘positive neutrality’ has become the basis of the country’s […]
September 26, 2018

Turkmenistan-NATO: Cooperation Unhindered By Neutrality

Ashgabat’s interaction with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) started in March 1992, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Turkmenistan, along with other post-Soviet states, joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, which was later re-named the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC). In July 1992, at the Helsinki Summit […]
October 13, 2017

The Caspian Sea Level Changes: Causes and Consequences

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the new independent Caspian littoral states faced with the necessity to adopt their own strategies towards the development of the coastal territories including energy and transport infrastructure improvement. However, since the Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed water body, […]
April 13, 2017

Asya Avrupa No: 16

Merhabalar, Nisan 2017 sayımız ile karşınızdayız. Bu sayıda Kazakistan Cumhuriyeti Ankara Büyükelçiliğine 05.04.2017 tarihi itibariyle atanan Türk Dili Konuşan Ülkeler İşbirliği Konseyi (Türk Konseyi) eski genel sekreter yardımcısı sayın Abzal Saparbekulı ile Türk Keneşi ile ilgili yapılan röportaja yer veriyoruz. Türkiye, Azerbaycan, Kazakistan ve Kırgızistan’ın kurucu üyeliğiyle 2009 yılında, Türk […]
February 21, 2017

The Results of the Presidential Election in Turkmenistan and Strategic Priorities

On February 12, 2017, the fifth presidential election was held in Turkmenistan. According to the Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan, the turnout in the election was 97.27% or 3,140,865 of registered voters. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was reelected as the President for the third time with 97.69% (3,068,311) of votes. The presidential […]
February 15, 2017

New Stage of the Turkmen Diversification Policy of Energy Export Routes

For the second consecutive year, Turkmenistan is facing the problem of decline in the amount of its natural gas customers. In 2017 Ashgabat reduced the list of its natural gas export routes down to one, namely, to China. In the early January 2016, the Russian state gas company Gazprom formally […]
February 13, 2016

Asya Avrupa No: 2

Merhabalar, Asya Avrupa dergimizin ilk sayısı beklenildiği gibi büyük takdir görmüştür. Bundan gerçekten büyük memnuniyet duyduk. Avrasya Bölgesiyle ilgili haberleri yorumlayarak veren ve periyodik analizler yapan bir dergi olarak bundan sonraki sayılarımızda da kaliteden ödün vermeden yayın faaliyetlerimize devam etmek arzusundayız. Bu sayımızda da yine çeşitli konularda 30’dan fazla haberi […]