Turkey's troubles could cut off Europe from oil regions

The current rift between the EU and Turkey will also have implications for energy policy. The EU will gradually be isolated from the oil-rich regions.

Turkey wants to act as a liaison between EU markets and the energy-rich regions of Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Middle East. If Turkey were a member of the EU, then the EU could have direct access to these energy resources, which will be critical to the EU's energy independence. European energy companies could supply the EU market autonomously, which would also have a huge impact on the formation of oil prices.

However, there is ample evidence that relations between the EU and Turkey are not improving, but worsening. A political agreement between Ankara and Brussels is not planned in the near term. Turkish geopolitics in the light of recent events is viewed by analysts from a global point of view.

TASAM's analysis notes: “After the collapse of the USSR, the United States' cooperation with Japan and Germany gradually turned into economic and political competition at the global level. The goal of the US is to use its military power to establish a monopoly in the oil-rich regions, which leads to the fact that the EU and the US will inevitably become rivals. "