Turkey's energy security and Eurasian approachment in Turkish foreign policy

What is it about?

This chapter aims to reassess the importance of Eurasia for Turkey’s energy security in light of the debate on the emergence of an alternative Eurasian orientation in Turkish foreign policy. The argument asserts that not only strategic interests driven by tradeoffs but also a cognitive bias driven to an extent by the worldview of the recent political leadership and mostly by the national identity conception of the ruling elite are important in understanding and explaining Turkey’s energy security in Eurasia. The concluding part underlines the limitations and opportunities in Turkey’s pivot to Eurasia in light of the country’s asymmetric interdependence with Russia in energy security.

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