Turkey's geopolitical importance in maintaining EU energy security

Abstract

Demonstrating Turkey’s importance to the EU, how Turkey and the EU deal with energy among themselves is the main research question. Based on a descriptive and analytical approach, an attempt has been made to understand the content of Turkey’s role and influence in ensuring EU energy security, which is a kind of complementarity in the EU and Turkey’s energy policy. Turkey is of great importance to the EU in providing energy security as an economic resource and later as a security resource. This importance is reflected in the transportation of several oil pipelines to the European Union, the neighborhood of several countries rich in oil and natural resources.