{"id":24941,"date":"2017-08-28T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24941"},"modified":"2017-08-28T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:44:19","slug":"gas-games-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-are-threatening-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24941","title":{"rendered":"Gas Games in the Eastern Mediterranean are Threatening Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Gas Games in the Eastern Mediterranean are Threatening Europe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/08\/26\/or-39542.jpg\" alt=\"Gas Games in the Eastern Mediterranean are Threatening Europe\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/08\/26\/gas-games-eastern-mediterranean-are-threatening-europe.html\">Gas Games in the Eastern Mediterranean are Threatening Europe<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The European Commission is offering European consumers the so-called Southern Gas Corridor, which provides for the supply, in particular, of Azerbaijani and Central Asian gas along the Turkey\u2013Greece\u2013Italy route. The project\u2019s potential participants have their own interests, however, and are divided by long-standing antagonisms that are turning the corridor into a military and political delayed-action mine.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, which is traditionally reluctant to play by the European Union\u2019s rules, is playing a particular role here. Ankara\u2019s plans to build an Israel\u2013Turkey pipeline are being superimposed on the desire of the Turkish elite to occupy key positions in the development of offshore natural gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, primarily around Cyprus. These plans are unleashing a whole host of problems between Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, while, at the same time, affecting the interests of Israel, as well as Egypt and Libya, which are claiming their rights to the continental shelf. The world\u2019s leading oil and gas companies are also pursuing their own economic objectives in the region, the most active of which are the French company Total and the Italian company ENI.<\/p>\n<p>The current focus of contention is the offshore \u00abBlock 11\u00bb, situated in the territorial waters of Cyprus. Turkey, which is also speaking on behalf of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, has already sent a frigate,\u00a0TCG <em>G\u00f6k\u00e7eada<\/em>, to the region. The frigate\u2019s commander has been ordered to use whatever measures necessary to counteract \u2018undesirable\u2019 activity around the continental shelf. But any actions by Nicosia and Athens in support could be deemed \u2018undesirable\u2019, since Turkey\u2019s official position is that all the gas resources on Cyprus\u2019 continental shelf belong not only to the Greek Cypriots, but also to the Turkish Cypriots. And by the latter is meant the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas Games in the Eastern Mediterranean are Threatening Europe The European Commission is offering European consumers the so-called Southern Gas Corridor, which provides for the supply, in particular, of Azerbaijani and Central Asian gas along the Turkey\u2013Greece\u2013Italy route. The project\u2019s potential participants have their own interests, however, and are divided by long-standing antagonisms that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15742,281,349,15743,8203],"class_list":["post-24941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-eastern-mediterranean","tag-europe","tag-gas","tag-pyotr-iskenderov","tag-strategic-culture-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24942,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24941\/revisions\/24942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}