Turkey and the Energy Equation in the Eastern Mediterranean

This info pack will focus on Turkey’s perspective regarding developments related in energy and security in the East Mediterranean and will discuss the two contesting interpretations/approaches regarding the continental shelf in the Eastern Mediterranean, which form the core of the debate and the basis of the current tensions in the region.

Since the discovery of vast hydrocarbon resources, the right to exploit these resources has become the subject of dispute between Eastern Mediterranean states. Turkey, Greece, the Greek Cypriot Administration, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, and Lebanon have all made claims to these resources. This info pack will focus on Turkey’s perspective regarding developments related in energy and security in the East Mediterranean and will discuss the two contesting interpretations/approaches regarding the continental shelf in the Eastern Mediterranean, which form the core of the debate and the basis of the current tensions in the region.