Turkey's Strategic Importance In World Energy Corridor ( 2 )

We did publish an article with the same title in 2011. In that article we mentioned several topics and made some strategic evaluations. Since then time has proved that our evaluations were relevant. Therefore; we decided that writing this article as a follow-up to the previous one-would be appropriate. It seems that this article will be much more visionary.

Many international incidents taking place before and after the 2012 U.S.A. elections show that there are many serious changes in global energy strategies. To begin with, President Obama hosted the future leader of Chine, Xi Jinping in the U.S.A in 2011. This meeting, in fact, was likely the first step in the changing of the strategy of U.S.A.

Later, U.S.A.-Russia contacts gained importance. The messages of Obama before the elections of 2012 were quite striking. Especially those ones related to Israel. The U.S.A. kept non-reactive towards the events which started to increase before the presidential election was observed uneasily in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and especially Turkey. Even more, the Turkish Government made remarkable pressure. However, the U.S.A. preferred to keep silent until the end of the elections, as much as possible and it kept its silence for a long while after the elections.

While all these things were happening, Obama's secret negotiation messages in the aspect of relationships with Iran were also remarkable. Upon Obama winning the elections it was clear that the U.S.A. had made serious changes in Middle East policy. Some countries (Turkey being one of them) however, didn't see or didn't want to see the upcoming signal of these changes. And, the exact process became clearer in 2013.

In this aspect, Henry Kissinger's remarks about Israel were likely an indicator of the idea that Middle East would be reformed differently and that the U.S.A. would take its concern about that region elsewhere.

In the international arena, the following remarks on the new strategies of U.S.A. were to be heard:

The U.S.A. will not be at the forefront in the sense of political incidents around the world,

It will just watch the events behind the scenes without interfering them, It will avoid the moves that can ruin the balances, It will stay at the back front till a new balance is obtained in regional crises, It will wait for the local actors to take action in the region of the crises, It will not be exposed to blame; it will lose the position of scapegoat. Of course the economical unrest that the U.S.A. is going through has a role in its new approach, but the U.S.A tried to show that it doesn't want to be ruined in wars that it clearly cannot win any more. Because: the economical balances on the world are to be transferred to the East, and the sun rising from the East is to lighten the world more and more as time passes. Even if some countries are not pleased, this is the case.

However; in this period, Turkey's insisting attitudes about Syria were taking in the reactions of both the U.S.A-EU and Russia. The social reaction called "Gezi Olayları", that started before the end of May 2013 in Turkey, was accepted as a warning to Turkey about its insists, because these events targeted the...

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