Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Bulent Aliriza, director of the CSIS Turkey Project, was quoted by the Washington Times, "Georgia Clash Imperils Europe's Fuel Flow."
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Bulent Aliriza, director of the CSIS Turkey Project, was quoted by the Washington Times, "Georgia Clash Imperils Europe's Fuel Flow."
Russia's military incursion into Georgia, a former Soviet republic, signals that it intends to play a much bigger role in the distribution of Central Asia's huge oil and gas reserves to European markets, analysts said Monday.
By increasing instability in the area, Russia has significantly raised the cost of oil and gas pipelines that are on the drawing board. Investors now will be less likely to spend the billions of dollars needed to complete the projects, the analysts said. [...]
"The BTC pipeline rested on the twin goals of not relying upon Russian pipelines and avoiding Iran," said Bulent Aliriza, director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. Read the article
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