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Turkish Premier says energy projects prove Turkey should be EU member

13 July 2009 12:46 (UTC +04:00)

Ankara. Elmin Ibrahimov â€“ APA. â€œEven energy projects indicate that Turkey should be a member of the European Unionâ€, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while delivering a speech at the signing ceremony of the intergovernmental agreement on Nabucco project, APA correspondent reports from Ankara. According to Erdogan, Turkey was situated in a geography where almost two-thirds of natural gas reserves were located, and it was at the crossroads of source countries and consumer markets.
Turkey had fulfilled giant projects to transport Caspian and Central Asian energy resources to world markets. Erdogan said that Turkey’s natural gas network would connect with that of Europe, and mutual solidarity would be possible during possible crises, thanks to Nabucco project. He said Turkey was actually an important energy partner of the EU.

Moreover, the Turkish Prime Minister said Turkey was still working on Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline project, and also defined transportation of Turkmen natural gas to Turkey and the transportation of Iraqi natural gas to Turkey by a pipeline in parallel to the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline were two other significant projects.