Shaffer in the Hill: Turkish Upheaval Presents Energy Security Risks

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Sep 13, 2024

A sea of opportunities: Exploring cooperation between Turkey and the West in the Black Sea

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Atlantic Council Turkey Programs

In the political sphere, the interests of Turkey and the West in the Black Sea largely overlap.

Defense Industry
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Shaffer in the Hill: Turkish Upheaval Presents Energy Security Risks

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Aug 28, 2024

Turkey wants to end the war in Ukraine—and might have a formula to do it

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Rich Outzen

Turkey would play a role in a cease-fire and post-war arrangement, drawing on a history of balance and deterrence in the Black Sea region.

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Shaffer in the Hill: Turkish Upheaval Presents Energy Security Risks

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Jul 8, 2024

Turkey’s emerging and disruptive technologies capacity and NATO: Defense policy, prospects, and limitations

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Can Kasapoğlu and Sine Özkaraşahin

An issue brief exploring Turkey’s defense technological ecosystem and leveraging its capabilities for the benefit of NATO.

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In the News

Dec 21, 2016

Shaffer in the Hill: Turkish Upheaval Presents Energy Security Risks

By Brenda Shaffer

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Turkey

In the News

Dec 21, 2016

Stein Quoted by BuzzFeed News on Current State of Syrian Conflict

By Aaron Stein

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Russia
Syria

Issue Brief

Dec 21, 2016

Turkey’s nuclear program

By Aaron Stein

To decrease its heavy reliance on fossil fuels the Turkish government has made ambitious plans to increase its production of nuclear energy. It has reached tentative agreement with Russia and a Japanese-French consortium to build two nuclear power plants near Mersin on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast and in the Sinop District on the Black Sea coast.

Nuclear Energy
Turkey

Issue Brief

Dec 21, 2016

Turkey’s nuclear program

By Aaron Stein

To decrease its heavy reliance on fossil fuels the Turkish government has made ambitious plans to increase its production of nuclear energy. It has reached tentative agreement with Russia and a Japanese-French consortium to build two nuclear power plants near Mersin on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast and in the Sinop District on the Black Sea coast. […]

Nuclear Energy
Turkey

In the News

Dec 20, 2016

Stein Quoted by the New York Times on How President-Elect Trump Is Affecting Russia, Iran, and Turkey’s Syria Negotiations

By Aaron Stein

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Iran
Russia

In the News

Dec 20, 2016

Stein Quoted by ABC News Radio on Tensions Between United States, Turkey, and Russia After Assassination of the Russian Ambassador

By Aaron Stein

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Russia
Syria

In the News

Dec 20, 2016

Stein Quoted by Mic on US, Turkish, Russian Relations

By Aaron Stein

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Russia
Turkey

In the News

Dec 20, 2016

Stein Quoted by the Washington Post on the Assassination of Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey

By Aaron Stein

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Russia
Turkey

In the News

Dec 20, 2016

Slavin in Voice of America: Massacre in Aleppo, Murder in Ankara and Berlin

By Barbara Slavin

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Germany
Syria

New Atlanticist

Dec 19, 2016

Turkey-Russia Relationship Will Survive Russian Ambassador’s Assassination

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey on December 19, while a tragic incident, is unlikely to have a significant impact on the diplomatic relationship between Moscow and Ankara that has been forged over priorities in Syria, according to two Atlantic Council analysts. “This incident, in theory, could be a pretext for the Russians […]

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Jeffrey Hovenier

Nonresident senior fellow

Europe Center

Croatian Europe & Eurasia

Fellow

Mark Mowrey

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Atlantic Council Turkey Program

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Ozgun Ozguven

Executive Business Owner, Ozguven

Millennium Leadership Program

Civil Society Turkey

Fellow

Yerevan Saeed

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Iraq Initiative Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Arabic Energy & Environment

Fellow

Elliot Ackerman

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Afghanistan Defense Policy

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Defne Arslan

Senior Director

Atlantic Council Turkey Program

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